A Lesson in Secrets

By Jacqueline Winspear
(Harper Perennial, Paperback, 9780061727719, 323pp.)

Publication Date: March 2012

Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover

Categories: Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths, Mystery & Detective - Historical

Jacqueline Winspear is the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Mapping of Love and Death, Among the Mad, and An Incomplete Revenge, as well as four other national bestselling Maisie Dobbs novels. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Agatha, Alex, and Macavity awards for the first book in the series, Maisie Dobbs, which was also nominated for the Edgar Award for Best Novel and was a New York Times Notable Book. Originally from the United Kingdom, she now lives in California.

“With an affecting storyline and graceful prose, Winspear has again created a powerful and complex novel, one that will linger in memory as a testament to her talent and her humanity.”
-Richmond Times-Dispatch

“The combination of period detail and intricate storytelling makes A Lesson in Secrets seem distant enough to be romantic but sufficiently modern to engage our sympathies.”
-Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal

“Maisie is one of the great fictional heroines, equal parts haunted and haunting.”
-Parade