This is a biography of Agatha Christie. The book starts by explaining that Agatha Christie was raised in Torquay, Devon, and the house where she grew up and was so vital in her life was called Ashfield. She lived there from her birth until the time of her marriage, and intermittently thereafter. She reluctantly sold it in 1940; in 1962 it was demolished and replaced with a small estate of houses.
Her mother was Clara Miller, who Agatha was very close to. Clara was born to a British Army officer, Lieutenant Frederick Boehmer (1813?-1863), and his second wife, Mary Ann "Polly" West (1834-1919), who married in 1851; Clara was their only daughter.
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