The Soldier's Wife, the topical new novel from Joanna Trollope, takes an insightful look at the home lives of the modern Army and what happens when love and a vocation collide.
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 those 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? How will the family cope, if he can't? And how much can Alexa, Dan's wife, sacrifice her own needs to a way of life that demands everything not just of him, but of her and the children as well?