The Comfort of Ghosts - Jacqueline Winspear

1945. In London, it feels as if the peace is harder than the war. Years of devastating Luftwaffe bombing has obliterated stretches of the city and left others abandoned. Against this backdrop, psychologist-investigator Maisie Dobbs is drawn into the plight of a group of adolescent orphans, along with a gravely ill demobbed soldier who are squatting in a Belgravia mansion. Maisie's attempt to help brings to light a decades-old mystery concerning her first husband, James Compton, who was killed while... Zobrazit více