![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ineligible for the kinds of pensions, benefits, and services that physically injured veterans receive, they are often homeless and too damaged to get and keep a job to support themselves. Maisie herself has served in the Great War as a nurse, and she, too, suffered injuries, both physical and emotional during the war, so she has always been particularly sympathetic to the plight of these unfortunate, mentally ill veterans. The intrepid Maisie Dobbs, psychologist and private investigator, is walking through London on Christmas Eve, 1931, when a man she believes to be a shell-shocked veteran of World War I suddenly blows himself up, injuring Maisie and several other bystanders. And there are thousands of me, so many hundreds and thousands of me, all of us back here, but never to return home. “I am the man they sent to war, I am the man who went forward at their battle cry. Over to read a review of The Mapping of Love and Death)ĭown to read a review of Messenger of Truth)ĭown to read a review of Pardonable Lies) Over to read a review of A Lesson in Secrets) ![]()
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