The Ship of Brides (2006) (edit title/settings)

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• Gran: An older woman, in her 80s
• Ram Vaghela: The Singh family's driver, now driving to Bombay with Jennifer, Jay and Gran
• Jennifer: Grand-daughter to Gran, on college vacation
• Sanjay: Jennifer's college friend, a native of India; lived in Gujavat.
• Mr. Battacharya: A shipbreaker who was enraged by Jennifer's presence in the shipyard.
• Letty McHugh: Helped at the Donleavy's since her sister was no longer there; 45 yrs. old
• Maggie: Letty's niece, married to Joe and pregnant. One of the brides chosen to go to Britain.
• Murray Donleavy: Letty's brother-in-law, husband to her sister Noreen; father to Daniel, Niall, Colm and Liam.
• Joe: The man Maggie had married; in the British Navy
• Daniel: Youngest of the Donleavy brothers, nearly 17, very close to Maggie
• Niall: One of Maggie's brothers, served in the war
• Avice: One of the brides; she shared a cabin with Maggie, Frances and Jean; used to living well; aghast at sailing on the Victoria
• Ian Radley: The man Avice married and was traveling to be with.
• Jean Castleforth: Married to Stanley; young (about 16); acted crudely
• Mrs. Proffit: The woman helping te wives sew toys for the bombed-out children of London at the American Wives' Club in Sydney
• Audrey Marshall: Matron at the Australian General Hospital on the American base at Morotai in the South Pacific.
• Sister Frances Mackenzie: Sailing on the hospital ship from Morotai, to meet HMS Victoria; married to Alfred "Chalkie" Mackenzie.
• Capt. Highfield: The captain of HMS Victoria; not happy about having all those women aboard; was captain of the Victoria's sister ship; his last trip before retiring.
• Maude Gonne: Maggie's dog; old, half-blind and getting grey around the nose. A gift to Maggie on her 10th birthday from her mother.
• Dr. Vincent Duxbury: A civilian, a replacement for the ship's doctor, who'd missed the ship's sailing
• Dobson: The executive officer on the Victoria
• Henry Nicol: Marine who was assigned to guard the girls' door most nights
• Dennis Tims: Engineer on the Victoria; invited the girls to a card party; hefty and a brawler
• Mr. Radcliffe: The man who "helped" Frances in Queensland, in 1959.
• Hank: Cook at the Queensland bar
• Irene Carter: A girl of high social standing whom Avice knew prior to this trip. She was joining her husband, Harold, in Britain.
• Charlie Bailie: The captain at the hospital on Morotai.

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• Alang, India: A city devoted to shipbreaking. There were 400 shipyards there, all dedicated to taking apart old ships.
• American Wives' Club: In Australia in 1946; in Sydney where many of the women scheduled to take ship to be with their husbands in England spent their waiting time. There, they'd be socially interactive with others like themselves. Because the wives of Americans had already left, it was no longer American in nature.
• Australian General Hospital: A few hundred yards from the American base on Morotai, in the Halmaheras Islands in the South Pacific. It was where, at war's end Prisoners of War were brought, treated as well as could be done and then shipped home. There had been 52 wards and many doctors and nurses.
• HMS Victoria: A huge aircraft carrier who'd seen better days and been used during the war. This trip, it was carrying nearly 700 Australlian war brides to their British husbands. It sported gun turrets, airplanes with folded wings, and many of the accoutrements of war. It extended 9 floors below the flight deck and 4 above it. On it Maggie, Avice, Jean and Frances shared a cabin.
• Bombay, India: A major port, reached on the Victoria's 26th day out. About 600 of the war brides went ashore, Maggie, Frances and Avice among them. They spent time in Green's Hotel there.
• Plymouth, England: The final destination of HMS Victoria with her cargo of over 650 war brides. It took 42 days to arrive.

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1. Jojo Moyes (Author)

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• Dewey: 813

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• Books › Literature & Fiction › Contemporary

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