![]() ![]() The next summer at the beach, he read nothing but Agatha Christie – these were the first adult books he ever read – and that summer, sitting by the sea, reading, wriggling his toes in the sand, are among his happiest memories.Īgatha Christie made him into a reader – and a writer. He was probably scarred for life – and all he wanted was more. He devoured it in a state of excitement and fear and didn’t sleep all night. He was immediately attracted by her selection of Agatha Christie novels, mainly intrigued by the lurid covers, and chose And Then There Were None to read. She was perhaps a bit of a literary snob and didn’t read crime fiction – but his older sister did, and Alex snuck into her room when he was about eleven or twelve, and looked at the books on her shelf. But ironically his first and most profound reading experience had nothing to do with his mother. ![]()
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