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With characters so real they feel like dear friends and a compelling storyline, this is a beautiful, special novel.
The Ship of Brides - Historical Novel Society
Although focusing on so many characters could easily have become overwhelming, Moyes masterfully balances their stories.Sydney and Ridge make beautiful music together in a love triangle written by Hoover ( Losing Hope, 2013, etc. Even more mind boggling was the fact that many of these women on the ship were leaving everything (Australia) and everyone they'd ever known to go to a country (England) they'd never been before to be with men they'd married yet barely knew, and some of them are eight months pregnant and their husbands are about to lay eyes on women whom were young, thin beauties last they saw them.
The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes: 9780143126478
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. Over 600 will not have the luxury of traveling on a ship like the Queen Mary with all of its amenities but will make the six-week journey on The Victoria, an aircraft carrier. I can't say that this was the best book ever or anything special, but I don't have a single complaint either, which is why I simply cannot give less than five stars. This novel starts off in Australia, where over 600 Australian brides need to be transported to their English husbands in England, to go and live as a married couple now that the War is over.The book drags in parts, and the largely unnecessary frame story is easily forgotten, but those are small complaints. Many of the women have spent very little time with their husbands and almost all are leaving behind the only life they have ever known. The romance was a small part of the book, there's a very slow slow build up of romance between Frances and Nicol(Marine) and its more present towards the last quarter of the book. An adventure story grounded in female competence and mutual support, and an obvious affection for the popular literature of the early 20th century, give this Depression-era novel plenty of appeal.
THE SHIP OF BRIDES | Kirkus Reviews
Jennifer and Ram are bickering throughout the trip while the grandmother is thoughtlessly swept along as if by the ocean without a care. This book started off very well and I thought it was going to be an interesting one, but, unfortunately it stalled halfway through and got very slow before it picked up again. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and Someone Else’s Shoes,a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. The story is good, the characters are well defined, there is some philosophy about live, a lot of lovely quotes, ALL of these making the difference between a great book and the usual chicken-soap.is that she] peers deftly into class issues, social mores, and complicated relationships that raise as many questions as they answer. I was drawn in by the characters’ heartfelt emotions and found myself enmeshed in their lives with Moyes’ rich language. In this world, men are able to have full lives and consequence-free extramarital dalliances, but even the intimation of an affair is enough to ruin a bride’s life. During the War many people from all over the world met one another and got married quite hastily, to people that they wouldn't see until the War was over. Overall I'm glad I read this one, I had never read anything about war brides and found the details incredibly fascinating.
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