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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Tracey
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Jacqueline Winspear:
Hi Jacqueline. I love the Maisie Dodds series not only for the time period you set the stories in but also the fact that she is a spiritual as well as intelligent girl. You give Maisie intuition and spiritual intelligence which she has learnt to trust along with her mental faculties. What caused you to give Maisie such insight? Is this something you have experienced? Do you know of someone like this?
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