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Sto caricando le informazioni... A Dangerous Placedi Jacqueline Winspear
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Jacqueline Winspear writes enlightening stories of the war with the Maisie Dobbs and now Elinor White series. Each character stands tall as a strong and independent woman. Elinor speaks five languages and aids England in finding and stopping foreign spies. Elinor also fights social injustice and England’s crime scene. What will Elinor do when an ex lover seems to be involved in organized crime? An interesting novel, but Maisie Dobbs excels Elinor White in character. Since last we met Maisie she has had major changes in her life and is overcome by grief. She is now returning from a trip to India and decides that she isn't quite prepared for what awaits in England so she disembarks at Gibraltar. There she realizes that she is being followed and confronts one of McFarland's men asking the reason. The mystery this time is more of how Maisie is going to deal with the changes to her life and the fast approaching discord in the world. This was probably my least favorite installment thus far because I always perceived Maisie as someone who could deal with adversity dealt her and that didn't seem to be the case this time. Her depression was depressing. Sometimes I am not sure why I occasionally read the Maisie Dobbs books. They have something but at same time sometimes the mystery itself is quite disappointing. I liked the unusual Gibraltar setting but I was completely lost at the end as to who had done what and who had died. A disappointing installment for the mystery. This is one of my favorite Maisie Dobbs books, because it deals with loss and grief in a very real way. The book opens with a series of letters that catch the reader up on some painful events that have occurred since the last book ended. Although somewhat recovered now, Maisie is not ready to return to England and debarks ship in Gibraltar. Stumbling upon an unresolved murder, Maisie uses work to try and grope her way back into life. Soon she is embroiled in a case involving Sephardic Jews, spies, arms smuggling, and the murky motivations of nations involved in the Spanish Civil War. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Historical Fiction.
HTML: Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril. Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stabilityâ??and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, "You will be alone in a most dangerous place," she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie's arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar's Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on "the Rock"â??arguably Britain's most important strategic territoryâ??and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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After experiencing the double tragedies of losing her husband James and unborn baby, Maisie retreats to India so as to try to come to grips with her grief. When her stepmother Brenda pleads for her to come home, Maisie sails to England with a stop in Gibralter. There she decides she is not ready to return home and becomes (accidentally) involved in the intrigue and danger of the brutal Spanish Civil War. But the grief and desolation of Maisie’s ‘life’ is lessened somewhat by her return to nursing in a remote village in Spain. She once again tries to find purpose in life through work and helpfulness.
A sad story, but also a courageous and healing one.
This title and series is highly recommended. **** ( )