num_pages: 415
description: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars 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 Englandaboard HMS Victoria which still carries not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced from the aircraft carriers captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navys 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 predictedforever.
language: English
title: The Ship of Brides
publisher: Penguin Books