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Cargando... A Dangerous Placepor Jacqueline Winspear
   Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  diana.hauser | Mar 3, 2024 |    ) delphimo | Dec 1, 2023 | This was probably my least favorite installment thus far because I always perceived Maisie as someone who could deal with adversity dealt her and that didn't seem to be the case this time. Her depression was depressing. ( ) cyderry | May 5, 2022 |  ) infjsarah | Apr 2, 2022 |  ) labfs39 | Mar 19, 2022 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesMaisie Dobbs (11)
Fiction.
Mystery.
Historical Fiction.
HTML: Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril. Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stabilityâ??and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger. But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, "You will be alone in a most dangerous place," she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain. Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie's arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar's Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on "the Rock"â??arguably Britain's most important strategic territoryâ??and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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After experiencing the double tragedies of losing her husband James and unborn baby, Maisie retreats to India so as to try to come to grips with her grief. When her stepmother Brenda pleads for her to come home, Maisie sails to England with a stop in Gibralter. There she decides she is not ready to return home and becomes (accidentally) involved in the intrigue and danger of the brutal Spanish Civil War. But the grief and desolation of Maisie’s ‘life’ is lessened somewhat by her return to nursing in a remote village in Spain. She once again tries to find purpose in life through work and helpfulness.
A sad story, but also a courageous and healing one.
This title and series is highly recommended. **** (