The Comfort of Ghosts

Its place in Maisie Dobbs

The Comfort of Ghosts is book 18 in the Maisie Dobbs series. It follows A Sunlit Weapon. 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…