Janet
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Jacqueline Winspear:
My neighbors and I read the first Maisie book in our book club group. I was so taken with Maisie and the wisdom that Maurice imparts to her in her lessons. His recommendation to give the silence as much weight as the answer is something we all can learn from. I just finished #5, will we learn why she took so long to visit Simon? It seemed out of character of one who is in love.
Jacqueline Winspear
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Mark Pearce
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Jacqueline Winspear:
Where did you get the character of Maisie from? Is it yourself or a mixture of a number of people?
Jennifer
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Jacqueline Winspear:
I am always curious as to how authors come up with their story ideas. Can you tell me how you came up with the idea for your new book? I'm also interested in why you've chosen WWI (and just following as with the Maisie Dobbs series) for your time period? And how much research do you do for each of your novels?
Jennifer Kepesh
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Jacqueline Winspear:
I've appreciated the way that your character has grown throughout the series. There is one characteristic/gift of Maisie's that I noticed you decided to allow to quietly drop out of the storylines--communication with dead spirits. I think it was a good choice, but I'm curious--why did you have this as part of the character in early novels? What prompted the change?
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