The Soldier’s Wife. Margaret Leroy

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Название The Soldier’s Wife
Автор произведения Margaret Leroy
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       Praise for MARGARET LEROY

      ‘Utterly beguiling …’

      —Rosamund Lupton, bestselling author of Sister

      ‘Margaret Leroy writes with candour and intelligence, capturing the menace of suddenly finding the world may not be at all as you’ve thought it’

      —Helen Dunmore

      ‘Leroy handles … domestic life with the same graceful, precise, rueful style as [Richard Yates] the late novelist did, though with a warmer, more hopeful intelligence’

       —Washington Post

      ‘Engrossing and affecting’

       —Eve

      ‘Brilliant at portraying the slow, steady disintegration of a seemingly ordinary life when secrets are unearthed and dark suspicions spread’

       —Baltimore Sun

      ‘Powerful and haunting’

       —Daily Mirror

      ‘What a storyteller Leroy is and what an eye she has for contemporary life’

      —Fay Weldon

      ‘[Leroy’s] quiet, self-assured narrative voice delivers tremendous psychological depth and emotional resonance’

       —Kirkus Reviews

      ‘Leroy expertly draws a picture of a woman and a family in crisis and the moral questions one sometimes has to face’

       —Toronto Sun

      MARGARET LEROY studied music at Oxford. She has written four novels, one of which was televised by Granada and reached an audience of eight million. Margaret has appeared on numerous radio and TV programmes, and her articles and short stories have been published in The Observer, The Sunday Express and The Mail on Sunday. Her books have been translated into ten languages. Margaret is married with two daughters and lives in London.

       The Soldier’s Wife

      Margaret Leroy

      

       www.mirabooks.co.uk

       ‘Qui veurt apprendre a priaïr, qu’il aouche en maïr.’

      He who wishes to learn to pray, let him go to sea.

      —Guernsey proverb

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      My thanks are due to my wonderfully thoughtful and perceptive editor, Maddie West, and the whole talented team at MIRA; I am especially grateful to Kim Young, Oliver Rhodes and Sue Smith, my meticulous copyeditor. Thank you as well to Brenda Copeland and Elisabeth Dyssegard at Hyperion in New York. I am also deeply grateful to my agents, Kathleen Anderson, and Laura Longrigg in London, who are so committed to my writing and who have supported me in so many ways. And thank you as always to Mick and Izzie, who shared Guernsey with me, and Becky and Steve, for so much love and encouragement.

      Among the books that I read while researching this story, two deserve special mention—Madeleine Bunting’s fascinating history, The Model Occupation, and Marie de Garis’s enchanting volume, Folklore of Guernsey.

      Table of Contents

       Cover

      Praise

       Author the Author

       Title Page

       Epigraph

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

      PART I: JUNE 1940

      CHAPTER 1

       CHAPTER 16

       CHAPTER 17

       CHAPTER 18

       CHAPTER 19

       CHAPTER 20

       CHAPTER 21

       CHAPTER 22

       CHAPTER 23

       CHAPTER 24

       CHAPTER 25

       CHAPTER 26

       CHAPTER 27

       CHAPTER 28

       CHAPTER 29

       CHAPTER 30

       CHAPTER 31

       CHAPTER 32

       CHAPTER 33

       PART III: OCTOBER 1940 – SEPTEMBER 1941

       CHAPTER 34

       CHAPTER 35

       CHAPTER 36

       CHAPTER 37

       CHAPTER 38

       CHAPTER 39

       CHAPTER 40

       CHAPTER 41

       CHAPTER 42

       CHAPTER 43

       PART IV: SEPTEMBER 1941 – NOVEMBER 1942

       CHAPTER 44

       CHAPTER 45

       CHAPTER 46

       CHAPTER 47

       CHAPTER 48

       CHAPTER 49

       CHAPTER 50

       CHAPTER 51