Jennifer Brickner asked Jacqueline Winspear:

I loved the fact that Maisie was able to attend school at a time when it was an almost unobtainable goal for women. I felt I was really lacking details from that period. Did she ever guest lecture or go back for a reunion?

Jacqueline Winspear Jennifer, Reunions were never a big thing in the UK, though they have recently become so. Maisie's best friend from Girton was Priscilla, and they have an enduring friendship. I have never been to any kind of reunion in my life, though I am very close to my best friend at school, whom I have known since the age of 11. I am also close to my best friend from college, and my roommate from the time I embarked upon my first job.And regarding Maisie's education, sometimes as a writer you cannot go into all the details - the editors would strike through in big red lines with a note to move the plot along! But remember, too, that Maisie's education was curtailed by the war, though she returned later to complete her studies. It has been enough to say that she kept to herself during that time - remember, she came home from war not only physically wounded, but as shell-shocked as any soldier.

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