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Product details Series Maisie Dobbs (Book 15) Hardcover 384 pages Publisher Harper; First Edition edition (March 26, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 006243666X

The American Agent A Maisie Dobbs Novel Jacqueline Winspear Books Reviews

• September 1940 England is going it alone under daily bombardment from the Germans during the Blitz. I have been an avid reader of this series and was delighted to find this story is wonderfully executed and tremendously enjoyable. You truly do not need to read the previous books in the series to enjoy this novel. I put a little background below (no spoilers). I have enjoyed all in the series, some are 5 stars others 4 or 3 stars, and this was a 5 star read. It's a nicely convoluted plot that eventually involves the The US ambassador to great Britain, Nazi sympathizer Joseph P. Kennedy.
  
  Book one Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron, taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European elite, recognized Maisie’s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete her education. The outbreak of WW1 in 1914 changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse, then left for France to serve at the Front, where she found—and lost—an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armistice, in the spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something very different in the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat, that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade.
  
  Maisie Dobbs series (year published)
  Maisie Dobbs (2003)
  Birds of a Feather (2004)
  Pardonable Lies (2005)
  Messenger of Truth (2006)
  An Incomplete Revenge (2008)
  Among the Mad (2009)
  The Mapping of Love and Death (2010)
  A Lesson in Secrets (2011)
  Elegy for Eddie (2012)
  Leaving Everything Most Loved (2013)
  A Dangerous Place (2015)
  Journey to Munich (2016)
  In This Grave Hour (2017)
  To Die but Once (2018)
  The American Agent (2019)
• I feel like I know Maisie. Afterall, I’ve read all of Jacqueline Winspear’s book about the beloved Miss Dobbs.
  This particular book reminds me of the first novel simply because I fell in love with anything and everything about Maisie, her family, her colleagues, and her friends. I could not put the book down! When I went to sleep around 10pm, I awoke around 2pm. Maisie was calling me! I read for three hours. I didn’t care that I was groggy the next day, I had to find out what was happening next!
  
  What a book! Worth every single dollar I spent on it. Share it with your friends too.
  
  Enjoy..., and be sure to have a cuppa tea or coffee while reading this page turner.
• The title is something of a misnomer -- perhaps a bit of a tease for where Maisie's life is headed next, since "the American agent" plays only a peripheral role in this episode. That aside, I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, which I finished all in a rush late last night. Maisie's adult life has now encompassed two world wars, a personal rise from household downstairs maid to trusted investigator and advisor in the mold of her mentor, who is no longer with us in this world but always present to her in spirit and counsel. (I often take his advice myself!) It has been a pleasure to watch both Maisie's brilliant career and her personal relationships with family, friends, men, and children unfold as she matures and absorbs wisdom from every source she encounters. Her lifelong friendship with Priscilla is a delight --two such different women with such different lives appreciating and advising and deeply loving one another. Rarely is female friendship portrayed with such affectionate insight.
  
  Of particular interest at this point in Maisie's life is the setting in early WW2 London, with the blliz forcing daily races to shelter, the city burning around its citizens, and the legendary resolute response of the British people on full display. At this point in time, the United States is controlled by an isolationist faction, the Allied Alliance still lies in the future, and the efforts of Roosevelt and other leaders in the U.S. and Britain to inform and persuade the American people of the necessity of their entrance into the war play a major part in the novel and its central mystery. Jacqueline Winspear does not wave flags beyond the natural sympathy her characters generate but, in light of today's political situation in both the US and the UK, the background related here is important for all of us to understand.
  
  Settle in for a great read -- another Maisie that's almost impossible to put down!
• I have read these novels since the first was published. Initially, WWl was the basis of my fascination with Maisie and her world. After Ms. Whisper decided our Heroine would continue her intrepid investigations in a continuing milieu of the decades after the war. Maisie has not enjoyed a wonderful life full of rainbow s. This is probably the first of these books. She is brave, selfless, intelligent and most of all, believable. I suggest you read thesee.books in order of publication. While the series is not necessarily a cliff hanger endings. The continuity of the character's.lives. The history involved . These books are complex and wonderful, start reading now.
• I love Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs books. She has created a primary character that's very likable, believable and interesting. (I would love a friend like Maisie.) She's surrounded her with people who are devoted to Maisie, have shared her ups and downs. She's unwittingly hurt some of those friends and sought to make things right. We've moved from a very young teen to a middle aged woman and she's every bit appealing as she was in book 1. In this book, Maisie's personal life moves along (no spoilers here) but it looks as though life is going to change for the better. I can't wait for the next installment!