Table Of ContentSpring 1929 Page: 8
Chapter One Page: 9
Chapter Two Page: 11
Chapter Three Page: 14
Chapter Four Page: 17
Chapter Five Page: 20
Chapter Six Page: 23
Chapter Seven Page: 26
Spring 1910–Spring 1917 Page: 31
Chapter Eight Page: 33
Chapter Nine Page: 37
Chapter Ten Page: 42
Chapter Eleven Page: 45
Chapter Twelve Page: 48
Chapter Thirteen Page: 53
Chapter Fourteen Page: 55
Chapter Fifteen Page: 58
Chapter Sixteen Page: 62
Chapter Seventeen Page: 65
Chapter Eighteen Page: 67
Chapter Nineteen Page: 72
Chapter Twenty Page: 76
Summer 1929 Page: 80
Chapter Twenty-one Page: 81
Chapter Twenty-two Page: 85
Chapter Twenty-three Page: 88
Chapter Twenty-four Page: 91
Chapter Twenty-five Page: 93
Chapter Twenty-six Page: 96
Chapter Twenty-seven Page: 100
Chapter Twenty-eight Page: 105
Chapter Twenty-nine Page: 108
Chapter Thirty Page: 111
Acknowledgments Page: 114
Continue Reading to Learn More About Maisie Dobbs and Her World Page: 115
A Note from the Author on the Tenth Anniversary of the Publication of Maisie Dobbs Page: 116
Reading Group Questions for Discussion Page: 117
Continue Reading for a Preview From Jacqueline Winspear’s Memoir, This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing Page: 118
Prologue Page: 119
1 Page: 120
Description:"A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." —Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete her education. The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse, then left for France to serve at the Front, where she found—and lost—an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something very different. In the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat, that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade.
