The ship of brides : a novel / Jojo Moyes.
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary voyage to England--aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy's ironclad sanctions. And for Frances Mackenzie, the complicated young woman whose past comes back to haunt her far from home, the journey will change her life in ways she never could have predicted--forever"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 0143126474
- ISBN: 9780143126478
- Physical Description: xii, 446 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York, New York : Penguin Books, [2014]
- Copyright: ©2005
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- "First published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, 2005"--Title page verso.
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- Subject:
- War brides > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
Australia > Fiction.
England > Fiction. - Genre:
- Historical fiction.
Romance fiction.
War fiction.
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- 39 of 49 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Braswell Memorial Main Library | FIC Moyes (Text) | 540191011034024 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary voyage to England--aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy's ironclad sanctions. And for Frances Mackenzie, the complicated young woman whose past comes back to haunt her far from home, the journey will change her life in ways she never could have predicted--forever"--
