![]() ![]() There were stories I wanted to tell and I think maybe I couldn’t tell when my parents were alive.” ![]() “I returned to it after my parents passed. “It ended up in the third drawer, somewhere lost in my computer,” she says with a laugh from her house in Ojai, where she and her husband moved after many years of calling Marin home. She was not a published writer at the time, although that was a childhood dream, and she just couldn’t find a way to make it go the way she wanted it to. I can read a memoir by someone who has a completely different background than mine, and yet I can see a reflection of my own experience in that memoir,” she says. There’s something about memoir where the personal reflects the universal. “Memoir has always been one of my great literary loves. Way before she wrote her first Maisie Dobbs mystery, at age 48 - there are now 15 in the best-selling series and a 16th on the way - Jacqueline Winspear started began working on a memoir. ![]()
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