A sweeping Australian love story from World War I

Newlyweds Ruby and Jimmy Hawkins are sure their love will survive the trauma and tragedy of war.

The Soldier’s Wife by Pamela Hart is set amid the desperate battles raging in Gallipoli.

Jimmy dreams of the future they planned together. In Sydney, Ruby reads his romantic letters full of love and longing.

But as weeks slip into months Ruby must forge her own new life.

When she takes a job at a city timber merchant’s yard, she is thrown into a man’s world fraught with complications. And as the lives of those around her begin to shatter, Ruby must change if she is to truly find her way.

Is she still the same woman Jimmy fell in love with?

Inspired by the true story of the author’s own family history, The Soldier’s Wife  is a heart-soaring story of passion, love and loss and learning how to live when all you hold dear is threatened.

“Evokes WWI Sydney to the point where the reader can almost feel the salty wind blowing off the harbour as the troops are shipped out through the Heads.”  – Books and Publishing

Pamela Hart is an award-winning author for adults and children. She has a Doctorate of Creative Arts from the University of Technology, Sydney. Under the name Pamela Freeman she wrote the historical novel The Black Dress,  which won the NSW Premier’s History Prize for 2006. Pamela lives in Sydney with her husband and their son.

The Soldier’s Wife by Pamela Hart is available from Dymocks

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