![]() ![]() I’m in love with this series, and my thinking on 5-stars reviews is like this: I only give them to either books that I find of great literary importance (which are also to my taste) like Toni Morrison’s work, or the work of Jeannette Winterson. Then I got all the books I hadn’t read yet and read them all so I was ready for this one. I discovered Maisie Dobbs in Jan, and started with a book mid-series, read it, and was hooked. Review #2 To Die but Once audiobook in series Maisie Dobbs ![]() ![]() I’d say if you’ve been disappointed perhaps with several of the latter Dobbs novels, to give this book a good look. Was the teenager mixed up in a larger conspiracy? Jacqueline Winspear deftly juggles these stories with a couple more, never losing the plot lines, moving both the plot and Maisie Dobbs’ life forward. ![]() Maisie and Billy are also looking into the death of a local boy, son of the owners of their local. Will they be rescued, and who will do the rescuing. Several people in Maisie’s life have sons who are with the BEF and whose very lives are on the line. The British Expeditionary Force has been left stranded on the beaches of northern France, waiting for the German army to push them into the sea. It’s May, 1940, and the Phoney War has suddenly ended with the German invasion through the Low Countries into France. Her setting is, of course, London and Kent. ![]()
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