Maisey
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Jacqueline Winspear:
I love your books but I sometimes find it frustrating that it seems you really don't want Maisie Dobbs to be happy. How many bad things can happen to one character?! I realize you want to concentrate on aspects of the mystery at hand but often, crucial events in her life seems to be handled in the space of a few scant pages or in flashback, especially in "A Dangerous Place".
Jacqueline Winspear
A DANGEROUS PLACE was an exception, and it is explained in JOURNEY TO MUNICH. Not everything is revealed in a single novel - I have always seen the series as a saga driven by history and character development, with each book underpinned by mystery, that archetypal journey through chaos to resolution (or not, as the case may be). Maisie has known much happiness - although her journey reflects the lives of so many women of that era. That is why the strengths of endurance and resilience are so often seen in her generation of women - war, industrial accidents, disease and poor healthcare made life incredibly difficult in the first half of the 20th century - hence the timeliness of the saying, "Keep Calm and Carry On" used in WW2.
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Michael
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Jacqueline Winspear:
My wife and I have read all of your books and thoroughly enjoy the Maisie Dobbs series. We are inviting you to come to Nova Scotia, Canada to attend and present at the Read By The Sea event in River John in July of 2018. Read By The Sea is a showcase for Canadian authors and has a loyal following. We have shared your books with fellow readers who are hooked. See you in 2018?
Becky Bowen
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Jacqueline Winspear:
Why a new series for Maisie Dobbs and not just a continuation of the other one?
Morgan Golladay
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Jacqueline Winspear:
MAISIE DOBBS was the first novel I had read which gave me a clear insight into the struggles of the British during WWI -- the rationing, deprivations, fears for the men (and women) engaged in the war -- on a very personal level. Here in the US, we were isolated from the war, but for the last year, and while great loss was incurred, I don't think it matched the losses of England. What were your sources?
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