In this continuing story of Maisie Dobbs, our heroine is recruited by the British Secret Service. She is able to take the assignment without hesitation because she has inherited a large amount of money from her mentor. Her assignment is to procure a teaching position at a college in Cambridge. Not the college in Cambridge, but a small one founded by Greville Liddicote who wants his college to be devoted to the goal of peace in Europe. During the war he wrote a book about a group of children who go to the battlefield and ask their fathers to come home. That book led to some soldiers refusing to fight anymore. Maisie gets the job as a philosophy teacher (for which she is well qualified). Her 'real' job gets muddied a bit when there is a murder at the school and she begins sleuthing. For me the joy of a Maisie Dobbs book has little to do with the plot. It has everything to do with the time in history (post WWI) and Winspear's ability to remind us of the emotional results of a war that has been over for years. If this sounds like something that would appeal to you, I would strongly recommend that you begin with the first one of the series. (It is called Maisie Dobbs.
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