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Title: Not quite Chas Todd but charming
Review: I confess that it took me two weeks to read this book and as it happened I read three quarters of it in two nights. I found it difficult to get into. As others have noted, Maisie seemed a bit too perfect, a bit too "lucky"--her own flat in Belgravia, her own detective agency, in the 1930s??? And the slimness, forgetting to eat, the MG. But somehow over the novel she grew on me. When the story ended I wanted to find out what happened next. Who does she decide to date? What happens with her relationship with her father? And so I have ordered four more Maisie Dobbs books, as well as the latest Charles Todd. Because charming as she is, she is nowhere in his class. His writing is deep, deeply felt, his characters dramatic where Maisie could well turn out to be--ummm--fluffy. But if she is fluffy then it's a nice cozy read.
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