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Violence
Some
Great War aviator deaths; a crime investigation; the violence of grief
Language
Barely any
Period-appropriate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild; past love affair
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild
Emotional Intensity
Very heavy
Very strong; the denial of grief and the impossibility of closure; the mother who refuses to give up; Maisie's own unprocessed war loss
What this book is about
The third Maisie Dobbs novel involves three cases that converge: a mother who will not accept that her aviator son died in the Great War, a woman accused of a crime she may or may not have committed, and Maisie's own continuing grief for the man she loved and lost to the war. Winspear introduces elements of the burgeoning spy apparatus of the 1930s and deepens Maisie's backstory.
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