Ship Of Brides

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By Jojo Moyes

1946. The war is over, and all over the world young women are setting out to join the men they married in wartime. In Sydney, four of them board HMS Victoria with six hundred and fifty other war brides, on an aircraft carrier still carrying aircraft, arms and a thousand naval officers.

The rules are strict and enforced from the captain down to the youngest deckhand, and they hold for about as long as such rules ever do. For Frances Mackenzie, whose past follows her out of Australia, the voyage will decide the rest of her life.

First published 2005