Agatha Christie was already well known as a crime writer when she accompanied her husband, Max Mallowan, to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s She took an enormous interest in all his excavations and when her friends asked her what her strange life was like, she decided to answer their questions in this book First published in 1946, it is now published with an introduction by Jacquetta Hawkes and gives a charming picture of Agatha Christie herself, whilst being a pleasure to read