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Violence
Some
Wartime murder; spy-world danger; a child as witness to violence
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
A lot
Strong; what children see and what adults dismiss; the wartime bureaucracy of secrecy; Maisie using her intelligence-world access to find truth in a world of deliberate deception
What this book is about
The sixteenth Maisie Dobbs novel, set in wartime London 1941. A young delivery boy witnesses a murder in the blackout but cannot get anyone to take him seriously — except Maisie. The investigation leads into Whitehall's secret operations. Winspear's wartime London has become as rich a setting as the interwar years.
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Child witness to violence
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