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Bezig met laden... The Ship of Brides (2005)door Jojo Moyes
Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Brides from Australia come to England after WWII ( ) Digital audiobook performed by Nicolette McKenzie In 1946 a group of women embarked on a six-weeks long journey to Great Britain, leaving Sydney harbor aboard the HMS Victorious, a royal navy aircraft carrier. The 650 (or so) women joined the crew of some 1,100 sailors on a journey none of them would forget. The women were all married to British service men whom they’d met when those men were briefly stationed in Australia during WW2. This is fact. Moyes own grandmother was one of those women and her story inspired this novel. The novel focuses on four women: Jane, a 16-year-old teen without much education and who is ready to party; Avice, a society debutante from a wealthy family; the visibly pregnant Maggie, who’s leaving behind her father and brothers on the farm to join her husband; and Frances, a nurse who keeps mostly to herself, and wants nothing more than a fresh start. Moyes intersperses these women’s personal stories with events aboard ship: beauty contests, educational seminars on how to be a proper British wife, drunken brawls among the sailors, shopping in exotic ports, heart-breaking telegrams, secrets kept and scandals revealed. Two men feature prominently as well. Captain Highfield whose Naval career is about to end, is tasked with getting his men, his ship and the women passengers safely to Britain. And Marine Nicol who is part of the detail tasked with guarding the women’s quarters and who has his own personal heartache. Nicolette McKenzie does a fine job of performing the audiobook. She has a lot of characters to contend with and manages to make each sufficiently distinct, so I didn’t get confused about who was speaking. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fiction.
Romance.
Historical Fiction.
HTML:From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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