Paperback: 311 pages
Genre: Historical Fiction
Publisher: Boldwood 2023
Source: Tywyn Public Library
First Sentence: The beach was hers: the water, blue and wide, waves cresting in the salty air.
My Opinion:
Catherine Law is a new author to me and I just happened to come across 'the Officer's Wife on a recent library visit. As someone who swears to never judge a book by its cover, I have to admit it was the cover that attracted me!
A love story set in WWII England, where the protagonist Viv Miles, an American Heiress newly arrived almost instantly falls in love. A whirlwind romance and a wartime marriage mean that Viv's life changes dramatically as she finds herself with many trials and tribulations to cope with. The coincidences within the story are central to Vivi having to find immense strength of character to enable her marriage to survive.
If you are a fan of love stories set in WWII then this is one for you.
Précis Courtesy of Goodreads:
1939 - American heiress Vivi Miles falls for naval officer Nathan as soon as she arrives in England. And, under the threat of war, they marry in a whirlwind before he leaves to join his ship.
When Nathan returns from Dunkirk injured, he is distant, aloof, and no longer the man Vivi fell in love with. But it's not just because of his brutal experiences of war. Nathan has a secret and Vivi suspects it's linked to the mysterious evacuee at the secluded house in the woods on his Kent estate.
As war continues to rage, Vivi battles her own grief and loneliness, and tries to find out the truth of the girl's identity, uncovering a scandal from the past.
Is her love for Nathan strong enough to survive?
Author Profile
CATHERINE LAW was born in Harrow, Middlesex, in 1965 she now lives ten minutes from the sea in Margate. She started her career as a secretary at the BBC in the days of manual typewriters and carbon copies before moving into the world of glossy magazines, where she worked as a sub editor for over 30 years. And, ever since she was a little girl, she’s had her nose in a book and scribbled stories.
Her novels are set in the first half of the 20th century, in and around the First and Second World Wars, inspired by the tales our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers tell us, and the secrets they keep.
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