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Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Consequences of Fear, The American Agent, and To Die but Once, as well as thirteen other bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels and The Care and Management of Lies, a Dayton Literary Peace Prize finalist. Jacqueline has also published two nonfiction books, What Would Maisie Do? and a memoir, This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing. Originally from the United Kingdom, she divides her time between California and the Pacific Northwest.
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Apart from being a series of wonderful mysteries, the Maisie Dobbs novels have helped to acquaint readers with a place and time of
which they might otherwise have known very little: England between the world
wars. What, at a minimum, would you like for your readers - especially your
non-British readers - to know about this period and what the First World War
did to British society?
One of the most gratifying things that has happened since the
books were published is that so many people have e-mailed or written to me to
tell me that my books have encouraged them to find out more about this period of
time and how the world was impacted by the Great War and the years until the
outbreak of the Second World War. I would like my readers to understand
something of history's gray areas, which are often well-served by fiction. For
example, we know about the Depression of the twenties and
thirties, and we know there was a Roaring Twenties, but that
only takes care of rich, poor, and rich becoming poor. The grand parties of the
twenties only roared for a certain echelon of society, and there was a whole
segment that was virtually untouched by the depression - which in itself was
experienced in different ...
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