Ginny

Ginny asked Jacqueline Winspear:

My grandfather was in France at the end of WWI. Did you have a family member to base your story on?

Jacqueline Winspear I didn't base my story on my grandfather, but my interest in the period was inspired by observing him when I was a very young child. He enlisted in 1914, saw action at Ypres and was severely wounded in the Battle of the Somme in 1914. He was gassed, shell-shocked and sustained horrible leg wounds. My grandmother worked at a munitions factory, and was partially blinded when a shell exploded, also injuring her sister and killing several of the young women who worked alongside them.

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Amanda Jensen

Amanda Jensen asked Jacqueline Winspear:

I do love your books about Maisie Dobbs! You have opened this topic of The Great War and made it so interesting to me and to everyone I recommend it to. I am excited to read your new book about topics of WWI. Will you be writing more books that are also about WWI? I would love to read more... Thank you! Amanda Jensen

Robert Foster

Robert Foster asked Jacqueline Winspear:

How do you manage to bring such apparent authenticity to your novels? Is it research, personal family history, all of that, or are you perhaps an immortal that has lived for a couple of centuries and just writes about it :-D ??

Michelle

Michelle asked Jacqueline Winspear:

Have you been inspired by any true life stories set in the same time post-World War I?

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