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Our Book Club selection for June 13 is Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline
Winspeare. Here is a brief description from Amazon.com: "Maisie Dobbs
got her start as a maid in an aristocratic London household when she was 13.
Her employer, suffragette Lady Rowan Compton, soon became her patron,
taking the remarkably bright youngster under her wing. Lady Rowan's
friend, Maurice Blanche, often retained as an investigator by the European
elite, recognized Maisie's intuitive gifts and helped her earn admission to the
prestigious Girton College in Cambridge, where Maisie planned to complete
her education. The outbreak of war changed everything. Maisie trained as
a nurse, then left for France to serve at the Front, where she found — and
lost — an important part of herself. Ten years after the Armistice, in the
spring of 1929, Maisie sets out on her own as a private investigator, one who
has learned that coincidences are meaningful, and truth elusive. Her very
first case involves suspected infidelity but reveals something very different.
In the aftermath of the Great War, a former officer has founded a working
farm known as The Retreat, that acts as a convalescent refuge for ex-soldiers
too shattered to resume normal life. When Fate brings Maisie a second case
involving The Retreat, she must finally confront the ghost that has haunted
her for over a decade."
Our meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month at 9:30 am in
the RCN Room #3, and someone volunteers to lead the discussion about the
book we have chosen for the month.
For more information about the Four Seasons Book Club or to get on our
mailing list, please contact me at michelesrosen@gmail.com. ~ Micki Rosen
Book Club
