- World War, 1914-1918, Women private investigators, Fiction, Maisie Dobbs (Fictitious character)
Maisie Dobbs isn’t just any young housemaid. Through her own natural intelligence—and the patronage of her benevolent employers—she works her way into college at Cambridge. When World War I breaks out, Maisie goes to the front as a nurse.
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Classical in form, earnest and grave.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- warmbleak
- contemporarynostalgic
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- Author
- Jacqueline Winspear
- First published
- 2003
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- Center Point Pub., Soho Press, Soho
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781585474066
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