Winspear at Heffers

Join Heffers Bookstore Cambridge for a rare visit from Jacqueline Winspear who is visiting Heffers on 20th August 2014 to talk about her latest, standalone book: Care and Management of Lies.

By July 1914, the ties between Kezia Marchant and Thea Brissenden, friends since girlhood, have become strained – by Thea’s passionate embrace of women’s suffrage and by the imminent marriage of Kezia to Thea’s brother, Tom, who runs the family farm.


When Kezia and Tom wed just a month before war is declared between Britain and Germany, Thea’s gift to Kezia is a book on household management – a veiled criticism of the bride’s ordinary life to come. Yet when Tom enlists to fight and Thea is drawn reluctantly onto the battlefield herself, the farm becomes Kezia’s responsibility. Each must find a way to endure the ensuing cataclysm and turmoil.

As Tom marches to the front lines and Kezia battles to keep her ordered life from unraveling, they hide their despair in letters filled with stories woven to bring comfort. But will well-intended lies and self- deception be of use when they come face-to-face with the enemy?

Jacqueline Winspear was born and raised in Kent and emigrated to the USA in 1990. She has written extensively for journals, newspapers and magazines, and has worked in book publishing on both sides of the Atlantic. Her acclaimed Maisie Dobbs crime series, set in the aftermath of WWI, is beloved by readers worldwide, who can now also follow her Maisie Dobbs Blog: Inspirations from an Extraordinary Generation.


Tickets from: https://jacqueline-winspear.eventbrite.co.uk
Price: £6 +VAT @20% and booking fee
Venue: Heffers, 20 Trinity St, Cambridge
Contact:events@heffers.co.uk
Date & Time: 20^th August 6.30pm 

We'd urge you to book early as this will be a sellout event!