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A Soldier's Wife - Marion Reynolds
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“An intimate portrait of a young mother as she attempts to navigate the political and social complexities of early 20th
century Dublin. Full of social and historical detail – but always warmly human” Catherine Dunne, author
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Ellen, romantic and naïve, falls in love with James, an Irishman
serving in the British Army. He is posted to India and this, for her,
is a dream come true. After seven years of heartache and joy, and a
lifestyle which is leisurely and luxurious, they return to Ireland and
James is demobbed.
They settle with their three young children in Dublin, a city rife
with political and civil unrest, and beset with terrible poverty. When
World War I is declared, James re-enlists. Ellen is left to bring up
her children alone, in a city which views the wives of British
soldiers with suspicion.
If James survives and returns, it will be to a different Ireland, one
which has lived through the 1916 Rising and its aftermath, where anti-
British sentiment grows stronger every day.
Ellen longs for James but worries. Will there be a place for them in
this new Ireland
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