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14th - 20th September 2009
The festival that celebrates the most popular author of all time returns to the English Riviera for its 5th year in 2009. Each year there are murder mystery dinner dances, tea dances, river and sea cruises, talks, seminars, plays and film screenings, as well as a classic car treasure hunt. Agatha Christie is inextricably associated with the area, having grown up in Torquay and later purchasing Greenway on the banks of the River Dart as her holiday home. The towns and surrounding countryside are scattered with landmarks familiar from her novels and influential in her life.
More than 40 events are planned - there will be walks, talks, theatre productions, films, tea dances, boat trips and balls.
A series of boat trips will cruise the Devon coastline to the River Dart and the Greenway Estate, the former home of Agatha Christie, now owned by the National Trust. Other events include a Cluedo Championship, a classic car treasure hunt and a tea dance in the ballroom of Oldway Mansion where Isadora Duncan once performed and Agatha Christie danced.
The loveliest place in the world,’ is how world famous crime writer Agatha Christie described her holiday home Greenway, which is now open to the public following a £5.4 million restoration.
It has taken hard working volunteers, builders, curators, conservators and craftsmen thousands of hours to restore the house to its holiday home heyday, enjoyed by Christie and her family between 1938 and 1959.
Agatha Christie is the most widely published author of all time, selling more than two billion books, translated into over 70 languages.
For more information on Greenway Gardens, please see -
nationaltrust.org.uk
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