Maisie Dobbs

I got a copy of the novel, Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, for Christmas. I have only just started it, but I am already captivated. I am so excited by this book that I am going to participate in an online read-along run by Book Club Girl on her website.

The daughter of a struggling greengrocer, Maisie Dobbs is only 13 when she's sent to work in the house of the wealthy Lady Rowan Compton. A voracious reader who longs to learn, she is discovered late one night reading in the library. Fearing dismissal, Maisie is shocked when she discovers that her thirst for education is to be supported by Lady Rowan and a family friend, Dr. Maurice Blanche. But The Great War intervenes in Maisie's plans, and soon after commencement of her studies at Girton College, Cambridge, Maisie enlists for nursing service overseas.


Years later, in 1929, having apprenticed to the renowned Maurice Blanche, a man revered for his work with Scotland Yard, Maisie sets up her own business. Her first assignment, a seemingly tedious inquiry involving a case of suspected infidelity, takes her not only on the trail of a killer, but back to the war she had tried so hard to forget.

I am looking forward to this read-along. If you're interested, there is still time to get involved, because questions don't start until Jan. 14.