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Lädt ... The Comfort of Ghosts (2024)von Jacqueline Winspear
   Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  labfs39 | Jun 12, 2024 |   Ms. Winspear has stated that this is to be the final book, the conclusion of this brilliant, beloved story of Maisie Dobbs. I can’t say enough about the series. Recommended to me by close friends, I have read every title and Maisie Dobbs has become an indelible part of me. Nurse. Ambulance driver. Psychologist. Investigator. Teacher. Friend. The admiration for this series has been expressed by many. A brilliantly written series “full of finely drawn characters scarred y the horrors of war.” “Taut, tense, beautifully written.” “A fascinating picture of life in England.” “an outstanding historical series.” “Ms. Winspear is a brilliant writer, mixing the history and the mystery with the psychology of criminals and victims.” I am sorry that this is the last book, but a bit of Maisie Dobbs will always be with me. ***** (  ) diana.hauser | Jun 8, 2024 | The Comfort of Ghosts is the 18th and, sadly, the final novel in the Maisie Dobbs series by Jacqueline Winspear. The mystery was intriguing but it was really the backdrop to ending the series with a look at Britain’s future as well as Maisie’s past, her adventures, her loves, and many of the people she has known along the way. There is also a solution to an old mystery providing a satisfyingly hopeful end to the series. Thanks to Netgalley and Allison and Busby for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an honest review (  ) lostinalibrary | Jun 2, 2024 |  ) sleahey | Apr 12, 2024 | Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Gehört zur ReiheMaisie Dobbs (18)
"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 anew 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"-- Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The epigraph of the book is a line from one of her previous books in the series, [Birds of a Feather] (2004):
That's one more thing that I detest about war. It's not over when it ends...It still lives inside the living, doesn't it?
And that sums up the main theme of this book (and one of the themes of the series) perfectly. The war may have ended, but for everyone who lived through it, whether as a soldier, spy, scientist, civilian defense worker, or someone whose home was destroyed in the Blitz, it never really ends. Yet life goes on, and everyone must find a way to get on with it. I loved this series, despite not being a mystery reader, because the characters are all dealing with war trauma in some fashion, and they all muddle through in a very human way, shepherded by a compassionate author. Although I was sad when I learned that the series was ending, I am very happy with this final book and how things were wrapped up. Kudos, Ms. Winspear. (