#24 Elegy for Eddie

Each Maisie Dobbs book gets better and better & I'm pretty sad, because I do believe there is only one more.  I love the historical fiction ~ it's a unique perspective to see WWII from the before it happened point of view.
#24 is Elegy for Eddie by Jacqueline Winspear ~ about the death of a 'simple' man ~ and how it leads to the necessity of keeping England safe from the threat of Germany and Hitler.  I do wish that Maisie would figure out her love life...but I like how the relationship with James was left at the end of this novel.  I guess Maisie is too independent to really be a married woman in the 1930's...

Quotes:
p55 ~ hail-fellow-well-met attitude {an interesting way to describe a trusting, kind person}

p222 ~ {I love the name} Elsbeth  {I do}

p337 ~ After the wary, however, in the early 1920's, the government had launched a series of advertisements aimed at getting the populating out into the fresh air, encouraging people to go hill walking, which some master of the slogan had abbreviated to "hiking".  {is that a true story of the birth of the term}

p341 ~ ...know he sailed close to the wind

p425 ~ even truth could bleed.

fl: Maudie Pettit pushed the long broom back and forth across the wet flagstones, making sure every last speck of horse manure was sluiced down the drains that ran along a gully between the two rows of stall.  ll: Each with their own thoughts.  Watching their world go by.