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02738aam a22003738i 4500 001 7A01C352A3BC11EE8732176F4CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231226010026 008 231211s2024 nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2023056228 020 $a 1641296062 020 $a 9781641296069 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a PR6123.I575 $b C655 2024 082 00 $2 23/eng/20231211 100 1 $a Winspear, Jacqueline, $d 1955- $e author. $9 47188 245 14 $a THE COMFORT OF GHOSTS / $c Jacqueline Winspear. 263 $a 2406 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Soho Crime, $c 2024. 300 $a pages cm. 490 0 $a A Maisie Dobbs novel ; $v 18 500 $a 2024/06/04 520 $a "London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion - the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously, they appear to possess self-defense skills one might expect of trained adults in wartime. Her quest to bring comfort and the promise of a future to the youngsters and to the ailing soldier brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning Maisie's first husband, James Compton, who was killed while piloting an experimental aircraft. As Maisie picks apart the threads of her dead husband's life, she is forced to examine her own painful past and question beliefs she has always accepted as true. The award-winning Maisie Dobbs series has garnered hundreds of thousands of followers around the world, readers who are drawn to a woman who is of her time, yet familiar in ours - and who inspires with her resilience and capacity for endurance at the worst of times. This final assignment of her own choosing not only opens anew future for Maisie Dobbs and her family, but serves as a fascinating portrayal of the challenges facing the people of Britain at the close of the Second World War"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Dobbs, Maisie $c (Fictitious character) $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Orphans $v Fiction. $9 83251 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z England $v Fiction. $9 87041 650 0 $a Great Britain $x History $y George VI, 1936-1952 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Detective and mystery fiction. $2 lcgft $9 186428 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 lcgft $9 83459 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft $9 200624 941 $a 2 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20240125012321.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20231226010926.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7A01C352A3BC11EE8732176F4CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search