02055cam a2200337 4500 546812012 TxAuBib 20170706120000.0 140516m20052014||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014007440 9780143126478 paperback 0143126474 paperback (OCoLC)871192069 TxAuBib Moyes, Jojo, 1969- The ship of brides : a novel / Jojo Moyes. New York, New York : Penguin Books, 2005-2014. xii, 446p. : paperback ; 22 cm. "First published in Great Britain by Hodder & Stoughton, a Hachette UK company, 2005"--Title page verso. "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"-- 20170706. 1939 - 1945. War brides Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 Fiction. Australia Fiction. England Fiction. Love stories. Historical fiction. War stories. TXWKC