TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moyes,Jojo
TI  - The ship of brides: a novel 
SN  - 0143126474 (paperback)
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New York, New York
PB  - Penguin Books
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Romance fiction
KW  - War brides
KW  - Fiction
KW  - War stories
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Australia
KW  - England
KW  - gsafd
KW  - Love stories
N1  - "First published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, 2005"--Title page verso
N2  - "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"--
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