"One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late." (c)

 58 Sheffield Terrace, London W8, you will see a Blue Plaque marking the home she lived in (Sheffield Terrace is the only house in which Christie had a room designated for writing).
It was the house that she was attached.
The attraction of Sheffild Terrace, as she explained, was spaciousness.
 "The layout was perfect, including the room for Max's library, with space for large tables to take papers and pottery, as well as a chimney designed by him. <...> and has an Assyrian brick with cuneiform writing over the mantelpiece, so the room was clearly labelled as an archeologist's private den."
The left-hand room at the top was  to be her workroom and sitting room. There would be no telephone, but it would have a grand piano, a large table, a sofa, an upright chair for typing and easy chair  and there was to be nothing else.
However, it was a house that suffered on the war. She wrote in 1940 - " Sheffild Terrace was hit a few days after we left! Front door and steps blown up - roof and chimney - windows and etc."
Her novel Taken on the Flood (1948) describes the bombing of the house which might have been derived from this experience.