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Violence
Some
A suspicious fall; the investigation involves the victim's artwork about the war
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild romantic content
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
A lot
The weight of war memory preserved in art; the specific danger of bearing witness to things that powerful people want forgotten
What this book is about
Nick Bassington-Hope, a celebrated commercial artist, falls to his death during the installation of a major mural. His twin sister Georgina — a former wartime ambulance driver — does not believe it was an accident, and hires Maisie Dobbs. The investigation takes Maisie into the London art world of 1931 and into the veterans' community that was Bassington-Hope's true subject. Jacqueline Winspear's fourth Maisie Dobbs novel is the series' most explicitly about art and the specific way that combat artists tried to bear witness to what they saw — and the danger that witnessing can create.
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fourth Maisie Dobbs novel by Jacqueline Winspear
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