Jan Murphy
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Jacqueline Winspear:
I received the first Maisie Dobbs book as a gift and was hooked. I have read all of your books and I want to thank you for so many hours of reading enjoyment. My question is, is there a little bit of your personality in Maisie? She is such a strong woman.
Jacqueline Winspear
I don't think there's much of me, if anything, in Maisie Dobbs. I am quite a strong person - but not like Maisie. She is of my imagination, and based upon the women of her generation in Britain, who were very strong - with the onset of war in the years 1914 onwards, they were the first generation of women to go to war in significant numbers - about 900,000 alone went into munitions, and that is without the code-breakers, intelligence agents, nurses, ambulance drivers etc - and the women who moved into men's jobs on the home front.
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Carole Russell
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Jacqueline Winspear:
Is Maisie based on a real historical person or someone you know? She is so human that your readers are captured by her. Your mystery writing is different in that there is always a murder that forms the nucleus of the novel, but her relationships with Billy, James, Priscilla, etc. are honest, insightful, sincere, and even humorous that you have become my favorite writer!!
Joanne Craig
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Jacqueline Winspear:
Not a question but I just wanted to say I discovered Maisie Dobbs, a few years ago, and the books are still one of my favourites, in the detective genre. I have bought a number of the books as gifts for friends. Thank you. I am sure many of us wish we could write as well as you do, so if you have some advice?
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