The Soldiers Wife, Joanna Trollope
The Soldiers Wife, Joanna Trollope
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The Soldier's Wife
A Novel

Author: Joanna Trollope

Narrator: Charlotte Anne Dore

Unabridged: 10 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/01/2012

Synopsis

The Soldier’s Wife examines how three generations of a family struggle with the impact of war on their relationships, long after the tour of duty is over. Dan Riley is a major in the British Army. After a six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan, he is coming home to the wife and young daughters he adores. The outside world sees these reunions as a taste of heaven after months of hell. But are they? Can a man trained to fight adjust again to family and domestic life? And how will the family cope if he can’t? To what extent can Alexa, Dan’s wife, sacrifice her own needs and fulfillment to support his commitment to a way of life that demands everything, not just of him, but of her and the children as well? What happens when love and a vocation collide head-on? With her trademark intelligence and kind, clear-eyed insight, Joanna Trollope shows us a family striving to balance duty and ambition with intimacy and understanding.

About Joanna Trollope

Joanna Trollope, a descendant of nineteenth-century English novelist Anthony Trollope, is the author of historical novels and a study of women in the British Empire. However, she has become best known for her lively contemporary novels, often centered on the nuances and dilemmas of domestic life in England. She has now written seven of these novels. Joanna Trollope was born and still lives in Gloucestershire, England.

About Charlotte Anne Dore

Charlotte Anne Dore is a member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA. She works in theater and film around New England. She played Elizabeth Hopkins in The American Experience and was a gorilla puppeteer in Zookeeper. She runs the award-winning Rosalita’s Puppets. As a storyteller, she has worked for Ghost and Gravestones ghost tour and Read Boston, a summer reading program.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Joanne on March 07, 2012

Dan is husband to Alexa, father to twin girls, Flora and Tassy, stepfather to Isabel, son, grandson, son in law, friend and soldier. On return from a six month deployment in Afghanistan Dan cannot seem to find what he is anymore. Being a soldier is the easiest for him than returning to family life,......more

Goodreads review by Apeksha on August 30, 2014

A random pick, The Soldier's Wife was actually interesting. I was cheering for Alexa throughout the book. Too hard not to empathise with her.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on March 02, 2012

A writer such as Trollope can take a reader and place her (more likely)/him (considerably less likely) into a groove from page one and transport seamlessly through a three hundred or so pages to, invariably, a neat, satisfying resolution. When on song, as she is in this novel, the reader will lose a......more

Goodreads review by Hjwoodward on January 06, 2025

I am gobsmacked by Joanna Trollope's skill. She is truly a brilliant writer. I really enjoy the diffidence and boundaries the English people in her novels have: they are so believable in their stiff-upper-lipness! One of her particular strengths is the way she describes children. The three-year-olds......more

Quotes

“Written with all Trollope’s customary skill and panache, this is an absorbing look at the modern military wife who no longer automatically follows the drum.”
Mail (London)

“A deservedly popular writer, but she isn’t a frivolous one…A cracking read,…compassionate, humorous, and topical.”
Spectator

“Nobody understands the snags and frustrations of family life better than Joanna Trollope…exquisite…a serious story that is unraveled sensitively.”
Sunday Express (London)

“Trollope is on top form, hitting the zeitgeist with this perceptive and compassionate inside story of an army marriage.”
Women & Home

“A penetrating study of military families and the potential conflicts between duty and love, The Soldier’s Wife bears all of Trollope’s trademarks: an affecting, well-constructed story; elegantly restrained prose; explorations of the ramifications of change; and, above all, characters conceived and nurtured with care. Those characters are people we know, people who might be our neighbors, ordinary people rendered with extraordinary perception and grace by an author who never fails to impress and whose journeys into the human condition always satisfy.”
Richmond Times-Dispatch

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