The Soldier's Wife (Platinum Fiction Series/ Center Point Large Print) - Hardcover

Trollope, Joanna

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9781611734461: The Soldier's Wife (Platinum Fiction Series/ Center Point Large Print)

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ISBN 10: 1611734460 ISBN 13: 9781611734461

Publisher: Center Point Pub, 2012

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Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees these reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? How does a man who's trained to fight adjust to family and domestic life? And how does the family cope if he can't? How much can Dan's wife, Alexa, sacrifice her own needs to support his commitment to a way of life that demands everything, not just of him, but of her and the children as well? What happens when love and vocation collide head on? Joanna Trollope returns with a new, deeply moving novel about a soldier's return to family life and the emotional cost of war, duty, and honor. With her trademark intelligence and kind, clear-eyed insight, she shows us a family striving to balance duty and ambition with intimacy and understanding as she illuminates an experience shared by millions of people.

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Review:

"Written with all Trollope's customary skill and panache, this is an absorbing look at the modern military wife who no longer automatically follows the drum" (Daily Mail)

"Nobody understands the snags and frustrations of family life better than Joanna Trollope. She also captures the dangerous pressure points in relationships, the steady build-up of tension, the exact moment when the family fur might really start to fly" (Sunday Express)

"Trollope is on top form, hitting the zeitgeist with this perceptive and compassionate inside story of an army marriage" (Woman & Home)

"The Soldier's Wife is a cracking read and has clearly been thoroughly researched. All the little details which animate a novel ring true... compassionate, humourous and topical" (Spectator)

"Trollope is always immensely readable, managing to depict characters' inner turmoil with deft, artful simplicity. Here, she brings her emotionally acute eye to bear on army life" (Henry Sutton Daily Mirror)

Book Description:

Does marrying a soldier mean marrying the army? The topical new novel from this number one bestselling author.

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