TY  - BOOK
AU  - Winspear,Jacqueline
TI  - The Comfort of Ghosts: Maisie Dobbs # 18
T2  - A Maisie Dobbs novel
SN  - 9781641296069
AV  - PR6123.I575 C655 2024
U1  - 823/.92 23/eng/20231211
PY  - 0000///June 042024///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Soho Crime
KW  - Dobbs, Maisie
KW  - Orphans
KW  - Fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - England
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - George VI, 1936-1952
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Detective and mystery stories
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
KW  - Detective fiction
KW  - tlcgt
KW  - Mystery fiction
KW  - gsafd
N1  - new book 2024 summer
N2  - "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 a new 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"--
ER  -