Happy Easter, everyone! Welcome to my blog! Today, I’m part of the tour for The Officer’s Wife on behalf of Rachel’s Random Resources. Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources and Boldwood Books for my copy of The Officer’s Wife.
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?
A historical fiction novel from a brand new author to me, The Officer’s Wife has a cover that is just eye-catching. Not that I needed to even look at the cover! The blurb caught my interest immediately. I really couldn’t wait till I could sit down and read.
Spanning the years from the 1930s up until the 1960s, we are introduced to Vivi and Nathan. A couple who meet once in person and marry. Vivi is an American heiress only visiting England with her parents when she meets Nathan. After they marry, she finds herself living with her in-laws as Nathan goes to take up his position as a naval officer. When he returns scarred physically and mentally, she realises he is a different man than the one she married. What Vivi hasn’t discovered yet is the secret he keeps from her. One that has the power to change everything in her world.
Vivi is a woman I took to my heart immediately. She is strong but also vulnerable, too. Just the fact she was left alone in a strange country with basically strangers, while Nathan went into the Navy. That alone requires some guts! The after effects of the war are given the importance that they need within this powerful and emotional story.
The characters are all so well depicted. Each and every one have their own unique part to play. Catherine Law really has a knack for making the reader feel every single frisson of emotion these characters feel. That’s even better than realistic characters. These could be real flesh and blood.
Altogether, it was a historical fiction novel that left me thinking long after I had finished. That’s always the sign of a good book for me. That and the fact that the draw to keep reading was almost magnetic. Catherine Law is a brilliant find for me. I can only hope she has another book out pretty soon.
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Author Bio
Catherine Law lives in Kent, 10 minutes from the sea, having grown up in Harrow. And ever since she was a child, she has loved to create stories. She writes romantic novels set in the first half of the 20th century, in and around the First and Second World Wars. Her books are inspired by the tales our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers tell us, and the secrets they keep.
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