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Maisie Dobbs

Maisie Dobbs, Book 1

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Maisie Dobbs

Auteur(s): Jacqueline Winspear
Narrateur(s): Orlagh Cassidy
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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 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.

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Maisie is a likable woman leaving rural Kent in England during WW 1 and 11. All will appreciate the character development.

Creative storytelling with intelligent vocabulary.

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As I am serious withdrawal, waiting for the next Louise Penney murder mystery that is supposed to appear in October, I have just finished book #18 in the Maisie Dobbs series. Maisie Dobbs is a housemaid turned “Psychologist and Investigator”, solving crimes and mysteries, mostly in London. Starting just after WWI and ending just after WWII, the author weaves in little-known historical facts and realities about the era. Foremost among those realities is the role of women in espionage, aviation, as first responders, and so on. I listened to all 18 novels in just a couple of months - the reader, Orlagh Cassidy, does an amazing job with more than a dozen recognizable voices and accents. I highly recommend this series!

Engaging, exciting, educational. I love Maisie Dobbs!

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Loved the story of ww1 and what became of the beautiful nurse... An investigator of mysteries.

Beginning of the series

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but the narration was particularly beautiful and the story will haunt me for some time

wonderfully beautiful read

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my sister introduced me to this series. it was wonderful reading. I enjoyed it very much

thank goodness for sisters

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I loved almost everything about this audiobook with the exception of the transition between wartime (when Maisie is a nurse) to post-war (when Maisie is a private investigator). I got totally lost and listened back thinking I had missed at least a chapter or two. Maybe a "Book One" and "Book Two" heading could help? But I'm off to listen to the second of Jacqueline Winspear's audiobooks 👍🏻🙂

Likeable, strong characters

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This book was a real treat to listen to - I didn’t want it to end. Vivid descriptions, interesting insights and a true to life plot.

Great story, beautifully narrated

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This book had a promising start; the premise of a female PI in the 1930's was intriguing and her independent attitude drew me in. I enjoyed following the tale of her investigation of a wife suspected of having 'affections outside the marriage', although the husband was certainly a very shallow stereotype. The answer to his questions about his wife's fidelity are fairly quickly dispatched, and then POOF** the reader is swept back in time for a long flashback into Maisie's past which would much better have been placed at the beginning of the story, since by the time through the protracted segue which includes Maisie's childhood, employment as a housemaid, amazing academic exploits (teaching herself Latin as a young teenager while working long days), university, nurses training, and service during WW1, I was left wondering what had actually happened in the first 1/3 of the book and why I cared. The last third of the story seemed superfluous and unnecessarily drawn out. I considered not finishing several times, and wish I hadn't because the 'reunion' ending was particularly poorly done.

Just barely okay

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