Eleven Days

‘A powerful cold-case study… thoroughly researched and thoroughly fascinating’ starred Booklist

‘I shall never not be fascinated by the puzzle of Agatha Christie’s 11-day disappearance and I shall never not want to read anything Laura Thompson writes on Christie (or, indeed, any writer to whom she turns her pen). She is such a clever, thoughtful, elegant writer - and really ‘gets’ Agatha Christie. I know Christie is widely heralded now, but many of the people who now profess to be fans were, not so very long ago, rather sniffy about her. Not Laura. Here, she applies her forensic, enthusiastic mind and genuine understanding of Agatha Christie to the case, shifting through the evidence to shine new light on the mystery. It’s a tour-de-force of literary detective work and I am devouring it greedily’ Natasha Poliszczuk

Laura Thompson won the Somerset Maugham Award with her first book, The Dogs. She wrote a biographical study of Nancy Mitford, Life in a Cold Climate, and a group biography of the Mitfords, Take Six Girls, which was a New York Times bestseller. She has also written two books about real-life murders: A Different Class of Murder, about the Lord Lucan case, and the CWA Dagger-nominated Rex v Edith Thompson. Her memoir of her publican grandmother, The Last Landlady, was nominated three times as a 2018 book of the year. She lives in southwest London.

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