He told me that when we keep secrets they grow inside us, and we can’t see the truth of them anymore.”Ĥ-1/2 stars rounded up vs. “about putting on the light in a dark room. “Tragedy is so personal, but it doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened before, to someone, somewhere-it’s what helps us to understand and bring solace to others, knowing something of what they feel.” “And I know only too well how time can cast a sort of skin over an event-a membrane that gets thicker until a point where broaching the subject is all but impossible, even when you think you can face the grief and terror once more.” I appreciated how the author has family/personal connections & experiences with so many aspects of this particular story including Dunkirk, toxic fire retardant paint and many other WWII specific event & situations. I’ve cried only a very few times when I’ve read the books in this series but I cried a bit while reading this book.Īs usual, there are interesting and informative author’s notes at the end. I love Anna, and I hope everything will go as well as possible with the situation with her and Maisie.

I liked that the reader sees how ordinary English people handled various situations. I loved all the settings and that the book’s storyline took place at such an interesting time. I really liked the mysteries in this one but from near the start it was a sad situation. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex,Īnd Macavity awards for the first book in the series, Maisie Dobbs, which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for best novel and was a New York Times

Jacqueline is the author of the New York Times bestsellers A Lesson in Secrets, The Mapping of Love and Death, Among the Mad, and An Incomplete Revenge, and other nationally bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels. She currently divides her time between Ojai and the San Francisco Bay Area and is a regular visitor to the United Kingdom and Europe. She emigrated to the United States in 1990, and while working in business and as a personal / professional coach, Jacqueline embarked upon a life-long dream to be a writer.Ī regular contributor to journals covering international education, Jacqueline has published articles in women's magazines and has also recorded her essays for KQED radio in San Francisco. Following higher education at the University of London’s Institute of Education, Jacqueline worked in academic publishing, in higher education and in marketing communications in the UK. Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in the county of Kent, England.

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