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The comfort of ghosts

Summary: "London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental aircraft. As Maisie picks apart the threads of her dead husband's life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers around the world, readers who are drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours - and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance at the worst of times. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens a new future for Maisie Dobbs and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War"--

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781641296069 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: print
    x, 342 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Soho Crime, [2024]
Subject: Dobbs, Maisie (Fictitious character) Fiction
Orphans Fiction
Reflection (Philosophy) Fiction
Women private investigators England London Fiction
World War, 1939-1945 England Fiction
Belgravia (London, England) Fiction
Great Britain History George VI, 1936-1952 Fiction
London (England) Fiction
Genre: Detective and mystery fiction.
Novels.

Available copies

  • 1 of 2 copies available at Tsuga Consortium.

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  • 3 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lakeshore Branch NEW FIC Winsp 31681010375285 FICTION Reshelving -
Stroud Branch FIC Winsp 31681010375293 FICTION Checked out 07/18/2024

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