Jun 27
From School Library Journal
Adult/High School-Maisie is 14 when her mother dies, and she must go into service to help her father make ends meet. Her prodigious intellect and the fact that she is sneaking into the manor library at night to read Hume, Kierkegaard, and Jung alert Lady Rowan to the fact that she has an unusual maid. She arranges for Maisie to be tutored, and the girl ultimately qualifies for Cambridge. She goes for a year, only to be drawn by the need for nurses during the Great War. After serving a grueling few years in France and falling in love with a young doctor, Maisie puts up a shingle in 1929 as a private investigator. She is a perceptive observer of human nature, works well with all classes, and understands the motivations and demons prevalent in postwar England. Teens will be drawn in by her first big case, seemingly a simple one of infidelity, but leading to a complex examination of an almost cultlike situation. The impact of the war on the country (more…)
5.0 out of 5 stars
“The extraordinary hides behind the camouflage of the ordinary.”
When I picked this Agatha Award Winner for First Novel to read I was expecting a great cozy mystery, but I was dead wrong. I got much, much more!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Welcome new series
Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear is a delightful, new book book. She paints a vivid picture of life for a young woman “in service”, in England in the years preceding The Great…
5.0 out of 5 stars
A lucky literary find!
I feel fortunate to have read this delightful book! You should be forewarned, if you have a Kindle and want the next in the series, you are out of luck for now.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Detective and pschologist
What a great book about WWL and a great nurse, detective, psychologist. It is beautifully written and has great characters.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good novel, weak mystery
In fairness to readers of mysteries, while Maisie Dobbs has several strong points, the mystery is obvious and requires little detecting.
4.0 out of 5 stars
two for the price of one
I liked this book. Really, I did. The writing is wonderful. But I was a little confused about what kind of book it wanted to be. Was it a mystery?
5.0 out of 5 stars
So glad I found Maisie!
Maisie Dobbs is a great new series. I hope I will read about her for a long time.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable Debut Novel
Maisie Dobbs reminded me of a grown-up, British, Upstairs-Downstairs World War I Nancy Drew. Overall, it was a delightfully and politely paced mystery.
5.0 out of 5 stars
maisie dobbs
“Maisie Dobbs” is simply of a higher caliber than most mysteries. The writing is great, Maisie the character is likable at once, & the mystery is first rate.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful fun!
I actually bought this book for my aunt, because I knew she would enjoy the charming Maisie Dobbs and the wonderful writing of the author.