The soldier's wife
By: Joanna Trollope
Publisher: Charnwood
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leicester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9781444814859
Subjects: Soldiers; Fiction; Family relationships
Description: Dan Riley, a major in the British Army, is back from a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan. He's coming home to his wife Alexa and his daughters, who he adores. The world views those reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? Life for a returning soldier is rarely straightforward and Dan finds it hard to agjust to home life in the Wiltshire camp. Can a man trained to fight readjust to family and domestic life? And if he can't, how will the family cope? 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?
Notes: Originally published: London: Doubleday, 2012.