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Violence
Some
Deaths connected to wartime service; investigation of disappearances
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate 1930s London register
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild; adult relationships among the characters
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild; period drinking culture
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong; the erasure of women's wartime contribution; the solidarity of shared trauma; what women carried from the war that no one wanted to see
What this book is about
The second Maisie Dobbs mystery finds three women who served together as nurses during the Great War now missing — and potentially dead. Winspear deepens her themes: how the women who served in the war returned to a society that had no interest in acknowledging what they'd seen and done, and the specific grief of women whose contribution has been erased.
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