Jennifer Vido: What inspired your new standalone novel, The White Lady? Jacqueline Winspear:  I wanted to explore the life of a female character who had served in two wars, from girlhood to womanhood – and who is then faced with a skirmish in a third war, that of the fight against organized crime in post-war 1947 London. Her background was never going to be passive – she was trained in the art of killing in the Great War and is called upon to do the same in the Second World War. Writing this novel gave me leave to explore how people endure war and the scars that remain, even though, for most, those scars are hidden in the quest to just get on with life after peace has been declared.  As one of the characters said in my novel, Birds of a Feather, “War is never over when it’s over – it lives on inside the living.”    Jen: Who is Elinor White, and what has brought her to the English village of Shacklehurst? Jacqueline:  Elinor is the woman who has served in two wars in undercover resistance roles. She lives in a “grace and favor” house on the outskirts…