How did those experiences translate into you I know your grandfather was severely injured in the Battle of the Somme and Impressed by your vast knowledge and ability to bring us into this time period. Written extensively on this subject as it’s always interested me.

Self-sufficient as the men they might have married had been lost to war. Very much a woman of her day – so many young women had to be incredibly Own upon his retirement – she is a “psychologist and investigator.” Maisie is Later, having recovered, she becomes Blanche’sĪssistant, and in the first novel in the series we see her striking out on her WW1 intervenes, and Maisie volunteers for nursing service, and is later woundedĪt a Casualty Clearing Station in France – an experience that defines her. Her education and entry to university, which is sponsored by her employer – but Psychologist and Doctor of Forensic Medicine who consults with the police –oversees Which is recognized by a friend of her employer. Readers first met Maisie Dobbs in the firstīackground, Maisie is a young woman of intellect and a keen intuitive ability, Readers who have never met Maisie, can you give us a brief summary? Speaking to Jane Ammeson, she talks about An American Agent and how her own past was an impetus for her series. On a multi-city tour, Winspear will be in Chicago for a book signing on April 4.

Peppered with excerpts from real broadcasts and reporting at the time. In to conduct an undercover investigation – her presence requested by a manįrom the US Department of Justice, Mark Scott, who had previously saved her life Wrought on the city, Saxon is found dead in her rooms. Her experience of seeing the death and destruction that the bombings have Maisie and her friend, Priscilla are volunteer ambulance drivers, and on one run they are accompanied by an American war correspondent, Catherine Saxon.įollowing her late-night broadcast to the US, where she describes Day after day, night after night for months on end, hundreds of German bombers would fly across the Channel to wreak havoc.

Jacqueline Winspear, author of The American Agent, the 15 th book in her Maisie Dobbs’ series, transports us to early September 1940, as Adolf Hitler unleashed his Blitzkrieg or lighting attack on London and other United Kingdom cities, an intensive attack already used successfully in Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Belgium and France to enable an invasion to take place.

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