![]() With mystery comes the archetypal journey through chaos to resolution, which also challenges character: we find out who people really are in the best of times and the worst of times. The “mystery” that gives each new novel shape and form challenges those characters, not only against the events of their lives but against the backdrop of history. ![]() Of course, the truth is I write about more than simply one character I have a cast of characters, a given period of time through which they move, and personal challenges they face as the narrative progresses.Ĭreating the characters at the heart of the Maisie Dobbs series and following their lives as each novel unfolds continue to engage me, chiefly because there’s not only an arc of story for each character over the course of the series and throughout that particular novel there is an overall arc to the entire series. ![]() I was so thrilled to be asked to contribute to The Strand Magazine blog, and specifically to talk about what continues to inspire me to write about the former WWI nurse and now psych ologist and investigator whom readers first met in Maisie Dobbs, published in 2003. ![]() Jacqueline Winspear on Maisie Dobbs, History, and War… ![]()
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