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Violence
Some
A missing woman investigation; the context involves wartime trauma in its aftermath
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The specific impossibility of returning to pre-war social roles after the war changed everything; Maisie's unique ability to understand women whose experience mirrored her own
What this book is about
Joseph Waite, a wealthy greengrocer, hires Maisie Dobbs to find his daughter Charlotte, who has disappeared from a hospital where she was volunteering. The investigation leads Maisie into a circle of young women whose friendship was formed during the war — and into the specific way that women who survived the war found it impossible to return to who they were expected to be. Jacqueline Winspear's second Maisie Dobbs novel is the series' first to develop the theme that will drive many entries: the long shadow of the First World War over the 1930s generation.
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second Maisie Dobbs novel by Jacqueline Winspear
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