![]() Billy Beale, Maisie Dobbs's assistant walks with a limp caused by shrapnel in his leg - a leg Maisie Dobbs helped to save when she was working as a field nurse in wartime France. He suffered shell shock at the Battle of the Somme (1916) - and she watched him pull immaginary shrapnel from his leg most days thereafter until he died. She was drawn to write about the World War I era by the strong impression she retained of her grandfather's suffering. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, now lives with her husband in the San Francisco area, but returns regularly to the UK possibly for background studies. ![]() I wonder when, but she was born in Kent, educated at the University of London's Institute of Education, and then worked in academic publishing, higher education, and marketing communications. I haven't really been able to find out all that much about the author Jacqueline Winspear. I am always on the look out for new series to try, and so I thought I would give it a go. ![]() I came across Jacqueline Winspear's book "Maisie Dobbs" by chance in a charity book shop, noticed it was book one in a series that I had never heard of, but that the books were award winning and highly praised. Jacqueline Winspear, the Maisie Dobbs Books. Iain's Leisure Reading Iain's Leisure Reading Short cuts : ![]()
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