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Where The Comfort of Ghosts sits
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- Book 18 of Maisie Dobbs. See all Maisie Dobbs books in order
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- A Sunlit Weapon
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- Last checked: September 24, 2026, against jacquelinewinspear.com
What The Comfort of Ghosts is about
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- Four teenage orphans whose wartime past is dark are squatting in an empty mansion in Belgravia. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion
- A demobilized British soldier, sick and shaken by what he saw overseas, takes shelter with them. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter
- Maisie Dobbs visits the house for the owners and is puzzled by how little the children will say. (Library of Congress; read November 6, 2026)
Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners ... puzzled by the children's reticence
Topics in this book
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Topics
- Great Britain
- Orphans
- World War, 1939-1945
Places
Time
- George VI, 1936-1952
Book type
- Novels
Reading ages
- Adult
Other books in Maisie Dobbs
18 books listed so far
- Book 1: Maisie Dobbs
- Book 2: Birds of a Feather
- Book 3: Pardonable Lies
- Book 4: Messenger of Truth
- Book 5: An Incomplete Revenge
- Book 6: Among the Mad
- Book 7: The Mapping of Love and Death
- Book 8: A Lesson in Secrets
- Book 9: Elegy for Eddie
- Book 10: Leaving Everything Most Loved
- Book 11: A Dangerous Place
- Book 12: Journey to Munich
- Book 13: In This Grave Hour
- Book 14: To Die but Once
- Book 15: The American Agent
- Book 16: The Consequences of Fear
- Book 17: A Sunlit Weapon
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