from ForeignCircus

After a long wait, I was delighted to see a new Maisie Dobbs book on offer- I did miss her. As always, Winspear has written a powerful book about war and its aftermath, though the mystery here wasn't really very engaging. I never felt any connection to the victim or the family he left behind- it ...

from tjsjohanna

In the last novel the reader was left with a tidy resolution - Masie was going to marry and chose a more conventional life. In this novel all of that is dismantled in a few short pages. I felt a little cheated. Here we find Masie struggling with depression and grief and hiding from her family and...

from ParadisePorch

This, number eleven in the Maisie Dobbs series, has Maisie working undercover for British Intelligence in Gibraltar, on the eve of the Second World War It's pretty obvious-since I'm on #11-that I really like this series, but it long ago became less about the mystery and more about Maisie and the ...

from tkcs

3.5 I was disappointed that the book opens to let us know that some very significant events in Maisie's life have been reduced to a few pages. I think there could have been another book or two to take place during those important years. This book just didn't keep my interest as well as the previo...

from PhilipJHunt

I'm coming late to the Maisie Dobbs library expecting a mysterious whodunnit. But this is different. And the back story would help. Not that Winspear doesn't do a good job of bringing first readers up to date. She does. But the personal story of Maisie is such a big part of this book, that starti...