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008 231211s2024 nyu 000 1 eng
010 _a 2023056228
020 _a9781641296069
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040 _aDLC
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050 0 0 _aPR6123.I575
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092 _aFIC WIN
100 1 _aWinspear, Jacqueline,
_d1955-
_eAuthor
_0(DLC)n 2002045370
245 1 4 _aThe Comfort of Ghosts: Maisie Dobbs # 18 /
_cJacqueline Winspear.
246 3 _aMaisie Dobbs
263 _a2406
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSoho Crime,
_cJune 04, 2024
300 _a342 pages
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
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380 _aBook
_2tlcgt
380 _aFiction
_2marcgt
385 _aGeneral
_2tlctarget
385 _aAny audience
_2marctarget
490 0 _aA Maisie Dobbs novel ;
_v18
500 _anew book 2024 summer.
520 _a"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"--.
_cProvided by publisher.
600 1 0 _aDobbs, Maisie
_c(Fictitious character)
_vFiction
_0(DLC)nb2017004562
650 0 _aOrphans
_vFiction
_0(DLC)sh2008108587
650 0 _aWorld War, 1939-1945
_zEngland
_vFiction
_0(DLC)sh2008113435
650 0 _aGreat Britain
_xHistory
_yGeorge VI, 1936-1952
_vFiction
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650 1 _aHistorical fiction
_0(DLC)sj2021056047
650 0 _aDetective and mystery stories
_0(DLC)sh 85037260
655 7 _aDetective and mystery fiction.
_2lcgft
655 7 _aNovels.
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655 7 _aHistorical fiction.
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655 7 _aDetective fiction.
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655 7 _aMystery fiction.
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830 0 _aMaisie Dobbs,
_v18
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949 _aIFIC
_cFIC WIN
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_p29.95
_j106670
_eIFIC
_fAvailable
942 _cBK
999 _c33541
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