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The Soldier's Wife by Joanna Trollope


The Soldier's Wife

Joanna Trollope


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Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope if he can't? Through the well observed, astute yet sensitive eye of the author this novel takes a keen look at the home lives of the modern Army. What happens, these days, when love and a vocation collide, head on?



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The Soldier's Wife by Joanna Trollope

Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees those reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they?How much, indeed, can Alexa, Dan's wife, sacrifice her own needs and fulfilment to serve his commitment to a way of life that demands everything not just of him, but of her and the children as well?


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About the Author

Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope was our Guest Editor in February 2012 - click here - to see the books that inspired her writing.

 

Joanna Trollope OBE has written numerous highly-acclaimed contemporary novels including: The Choir, A Village Affair, A Passionate Man, The Rector’s Wife, The Men and the Girls, A Spanish Lover, The Best of Friends, Next of Kin, Other People’s Children, Marrying the Mistress, Girl from the South, Brother and Sister, Second Honeymoon, Friday Night, The Other Family, Daughters-in-Law and The Soldier's Wife. Under the name of Caroline Harvey she writes romantic historical novels. She has also written a study of women in the British Empire, Britannia’s Daughters.
 
Joanna Trollope was appointed OBE in the 1996 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to literature.

 

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Format
Hardback
320 pages

Author
Joanna Trollope

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Author's Website
www.joannatrollope.com/


Publisher
Doubleday an imprint of Transworld Publishers Ltd

Publication date
2nd February 2012

Categories
Family Drama
Literary / Contemporary
Audio Books
eBooks


ISBN
9780385618038
 



















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