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Violence
Some
A WWI death investigated years later; mild romance in the historical thread
Language
Barely any
Mild language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Mild romantic content; the love letters are the investigation's starting point
Substance Use
Barely any
Mild content
Emotional Intensity
Some
The specific romanticism of a love conducted entirely by correspondence across a war; Maisie's investigation as an act of memorial for someone nobody else is remembering
What this book is about
An American family discovers the remains of their son — a cartographer who died in the First World War — in California, along with love letters to an English woman. They hire Maisie Dobbs to find out who the woman was and what happened to her. Jacqueline Winspear's seventh Maisie Dobbs novel follows two threads: the dead man's letters and the investigation into who wrote them, and the historical reconstruction of a map-maker's experience in the war. The cartographic setting — how maps were made under fire, what they meant to those who made them — gives the novel an unusual texture.
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seventh Maisie Dobbs novel by Jacqueline Winspear
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