The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in
their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an unknown
future.In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an
extraordinary voyage to England -- aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries
not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men.Rules of
honour, duty, and separation are strictly enforced, from the aircraft
carrier's Captain down to the lowliest young stoker. But the men and the
brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have
imagined. And Frances Mackenzie -- the enigmatic young bride whose past comes
back to haunt her thousands of miles from home -- will find that sometimes the
journey is more important than the destination.
The year is 1946, and all over the world young women are crossing the seas in
their thousands en route to the men they married in wartime, and an unknown
future.In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other brides on an
extraordinary voyage to England -- aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries
not just arms and aircraft but a thousand naval officers and men.Rules of
honour, duty, and separation are strictly enforced, from the aircraft
carrier's Captain down to the lowliest young stoker. But the men and the
brides will find their lives intertwined in ways the Navy could never have
imagined. And Frances Mackenzie -- the enigmatic young bride whose past comes
back to haunt her thousands of miles from home -- will find that sometimes the
journey is more important than the destination.
