Come, Tell Me How You Live

An Archaeological Memoir

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Judith Boyd

Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.

Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again!

To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author of bestselling whodunits. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, travelling with her husband, renowned archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he investigated the buried ruins and ancient wonders of Syria and Iraq. When friends asked what this strange ‘other life’ was like, she decided to answer their questions by writing down her adventures in this eye-opening book.

Described by the author as a ‘meandering chronicle of life on an archaeological dig’, Come, Tell Me How You Live is Agatha Christie's very personal memoir of her time spent in this breathtaking corner of the globe, living among the working men in tents in the desert where recorded human history began. Acclaimed as ‘a pure pleasure to read’, it is an altogether remarkable and increasingly poignant narrative, a fascinating, vibrant and vivid portrait of everyday life in a world now long since vanished.

Critic reviews

‘Perfectly delightful… colourful, lively and occasionally touching and thought-provoking’
Charles Osborne, Books & Bookmen

‘Good and enjoyable… she has a delightfully light touch’
Marghanita Laski, Country Life

really enjoyed this book

I really enjoyed this book which provided both an insight into this era and way of life on an archaeological dig and also an insight into Agatha Christie's personal life with her husband Max. really worth listening to.

Well written, well read

Come, tell me how you live has long been my favorite Agatha Christie book. I collect and read all of her works, I stumbled across the hardback version of this in a thrift store many years ago. The book is so fun, and light, and enjoyable to read, and gave me such a wonderful picture of the author, her stories, the people she was surrounded by. This is not a typical Agatha Christie. It is my favorite. The reader performed the book exactly how I have always read it in my head. I was so excited to see it on audiobook, and I was not disappointed.