![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, "You will be alone in a most dangerous place," she disembarks in Gibraltar. 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.īut on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn't ready to return. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability-and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. In Jacqueline Winspear's powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gilbraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril. ![]() 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. ![]()
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