Jacqueline Winspear

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the bestsellers An Incomplete Revenge, Among The Mad, The Mapping of Love and Death, A Lesson In Secrets, Elegy for Eddie, and Leaving Everything Most Loved, as well as four other national bestselling novels featuring Maisie Dobbs, an ex-World War I nurse turned psychologist-investigator. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the series, Maisie Dobbs. The Care and Management of Lies: A Novel of the Great War, to be published July 1, is her first standalone novel. Originally from the United Kingdom, Winspear now lives in California.

The Tragic, Heroic Women of World War I

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The Great War was a mixed blessing for British women, opening up the workplace to them as never before, even as it slaughtered their husbands and boyfriends.

Jacqueline Winspear | Published Jun 29, 2014