“My questions were always met with the same answer: ‘Granddad was wounded in the Great War.’ Not injured. “As a small child, I was aware my grandfather had difficulty breathing, that he would often be in pain - and we had to be quiet around him,” she recalls. Winspear, who sets the books largely in the period between the two world wars, was drawn to that era from a young age. I could not wait to get home to start writing.” Maisie Dobbs - nurse turned private eye - now has a devoted following (Hillary Clinton is a fan), and the 14th book in the series, “To Die but Once,” debuts at No. I was shaken out of my daydream by honking from cars stuck behind me. She spoke to the newspaper vendor, then made her way along the street to a building, where she took an envelope with two keys from her bag. “In my mind’s eye I saw a woman walk up the old wooden escalator at the Warren Street underground station, dressed in the garb of the mid-1920s. “Stoplights were at red as far as I could see,” the novelist remembers. Jacqueline Winspear was mired in London gridlock back in 2001 when her fictional detective, Maisie Dobbs, popped into her head.
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