In her later years, she recalled being traumatised by her mother's well publicised disappearance in 1926, and the suggestion that she had met with foul play at the hand of her husband. Although she grew up with her mother's fame, she was never comfortable with it, and attempted to live her life with as much privacy as possible. Hicks was born in Torquay, England to Agatha and Archibald Christie. Rosalind Margaret Clarissa Hicks (née Christie) was the only child of author Agatha Christie, and from the time of Christie's death in 1976 worked to maintain and strengthen the reputation of her mother as a literary figure, and to protect the integrity of her works.
