Maisie Dobbs · Book 1
Maisie Dobbs
- Published
- 1 January 2003
- Pages
- 294
- ISBN-13
- 9781585474066
- Type
- novel
About this book
Maisie Dobbs is Jacqueline Winspear's opening novel in the series of the same name, first published in 2003. The series runs to 18 books in this catalogue; from here it continues with Birds of a Feather.
Its place in Maisie Dobbs
Maisie Dobbs is book 1 in the Maisie Dobbs series. It is followed by Birds of a Feather. See the full Maisie Dobbs reading order.
Maisie Dobbs starts the series as a former housemaid turned Cambridge scholar turned battlefield nurse, who opens her own psychologist-and-investigator practice in London in 1929 — a profession she invents largely because the First World War, which she served through as a nurse and which took the man she loved, has left her uniquely attuned to trauma, grief, and the things people hide to survive them. Jacqueline Winspear built the series as much around the long shadow of WWI and the gathering storm of WWII as…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781585474066