"Maisie Dobbs got her start as a maid in a n aristocratic London household when she was thirteen. Her employer\, suff ragette Lady Rowan Compton\, soon became her patron\, taking the remarkabl y bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's friend\, Maurice Blanche\, often retained as an investigator by the European elite\, recognized Mais ie&rsquo\;s intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the prestigio us Girton College in Cambridge\, where Maisie planned to complete her educ ation.
\nThe outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as a nurse\, then left for France to serve at the Front\, where she found&mdas h\;and lost&mdash\;an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armis tice\, in the spring of 1929\, Maisie sets out on her own as a private inv estigator\, one who has learned that coincidences are meaningful\, and tru th elusive. Her very first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something very different.
\nIn the aftermath of the Great War\, a fo rmer officer has founded a working farm known as The Retreat\, that acts a s a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers too shattered to resume normal lif e. When Fate brings Maisie a second case involving The Retreat\, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted her for over a decade. "
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