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The Ship of Brides
by Jojo Moyes
Description:
The year is 1946, and all over the world, young women are crossing the seas in the thousands en route to the men they married in wartime – and an unknown future. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an extraordinary voyage to England, aboard the HMS Victoria, which also carries not just arms and aircraft but 1,000 naval officers and men. Rules of honour, duty, and separation are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier’s captain down to the lowliest young stoker. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have imagined.
About The Author
Jojo Moyes is a British novelist.
Moyes studied at Royal Holloway, University of London. She won a bursary financed by The Independent newspaper to study journalism at City University and subsequently worked for The Independent for 10 years. In 2001 she became a full time novelist.
Moyes’ novel Foreign Fruit won the Romantic Novelists’ Association (RNA) Romantic Novel of the Year in 2004.
She is married to journalist Charles Arthur and has three children.
Skryf Review
Amazing Read
Civilian passage. This novel has it’s source in the passage from Sydney, Australia to Plymouth, UK of close to 600 brides who are now going to meet their new husbands as many couples were newlyweds. The excitement dwells in the lives of four girls. who share a cabin. The ramifications of what they expect versus what actually occurs provides the excitement, but the individual personality of each girl and how they handle the disappointments or happiness in their lives is the real merit to this book. It is an exciting and brilliantly executed book and It is a must read.