“The war and its aftermath provide fertile ground for a mystery. It was a time when many women remained unmarried, simply because a generation of men had gone to war and not come home. She has come of age at a time when women took on the toil of men and claimed independence that was difficult to relinquish. The unique and engaging character of Maisie Dobbs is very much a woman of her generation.
As an adult her interest deepened to the extent that, though she did not set out to write a “war” novel, it came as no surprise that this part of history formed the backdrop of Maisie Dobbs and other books in the series. Jacqueline’s grandfather was severely wounded and shell-shocked at The Battle of the Somme in 1916, and it was as she understood the extent of his suffering that, even in childhood, Jacqueline became deeply interested in the “war to end all wars” and its aftereffects.
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