The paint has apparently given him massive headaches, and now he’s vanished. Although only 15, he’s apprenticed to Yates and Sons, painters and decorators, and has been traveling the country applying a fire-retardant paint to air-base buildings. Just as she’s seeking to adopt Anna ( In This Grave Hour, 2017, etc.), a refugee child living in her home in Kent, Maisie’s approached by local publican Phil Coombes, who’s desperately worried about his son Joe. She’s compensated for her anguish by plenty of daring deeds, including working as a nurse in the Spanish Civil War and as a spy in Hitler’s Germany. Maisie’s life has been fraught with difficulty since the death of her husband in a plane crash and her subsequent miscarriage. In May 1940, Maisie Dobbs-nurse, spy, psychologist, and enquiry agent-is caught up in the strange death of a local lad. Britain teeters on the brink as World War II ramps up.
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