The Soldier's Wife (36 page)
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Authors: Margaret Leroy
MARGARET LEROY
studied music at Oxford and has worked as a music therapist and social worker. She has written five previous novels. Her first novel,
Trust,
was televised in the UK.
Postcards from Berlin
was a
New York Times
Notable Book, and
Yes, My Darling Daughter
was chosen for the Oprah Summer Reading List. Her books have been published in ten languages. She is married with two children and lives in London.
Copyright © 2011 Margaret Leroy
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The Library of Congress has catalogued the original print edition of this book as follows:
Leroy, Margaret.
   The soldier's wife : a novel / Margaret Leroy. - 1st ed.
      p. cm.
   ISBN 978-1-4013-4170-1
   1. Married women-Channel Islands-Guernsey-Fiction. 2. World War, 1939-1945-Channel Islands-Guernsey-Fiction. 3. Germans-Channel Islands-Guernsey-Fiction. 4. Channel Islands-History-German occupation, 1940-1945-Fiction. 5. Guernsey (Channel Islands)-Fiction. I. Title.
   PR6112.E765S65 2011
   823'.92-dc22
2010047508
eBook Edition ISBN: 978-1-4013-4272-2
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Cover design by Laura Klynstra
Cover photograph of woman by Susan Fox / Arcangel Images
Cover photograph of Guernsey by Islandspics / Alamy
Author photograph by Nikki Gibbs
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