The Officer’s Wife by Catherine Law : A BRAND NEW heartbreaking WW2 historical novel from Catherine Law for 2023 EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
- Authors: Catherine Law
- Language: English
- Genre: Historical World War II Fiction
- Format: PDF / EPUB
- Size: 2 MB
- Price: Free
VIVI, APRIL 1939
Vivi had already travelled three thousand miles and, yet, in the back seat of
the chauffeur-driven car cruising through the English countryside, she felt
surprisingly fresh and settled into her skin. She kicked off her shoes and
wriggled her toes. Pure giddy excitement. Being here, at last, and on her
way to London.
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Her mother, next to her, glanced at her stockinged feet with an indulgent
smile, opened her compact and set to work on her lipstick. Due to the
outrageously sharp angle of her hat, only one of her dark-lashed eyes was
visible.
‘Say, I love your hat, Mama,’ Vivi said. ‘But isn’t it a bit too kicky for a
car ride?’
Isobel Miles shook her head and the peacock feathers trembled. ‘We
have to make an impression, don’t we, Vivienne, even disembarking at
grotty ol’ Southampton Docks. You never know who you’re going to run
into. Always be prepared.’ Her mother flicked her gaze downward. ‘And I
see that you are. That jacket suits you. And your hair. Too darling for
words.’ She winked and returned to studying her own reflection, a sharp
critical line between her painted brows.
Chanel wins every time, Vivi thought as she rested her chin in her hand
and watched the hills and fields pass by, ludicrously green as everyone said
they would be; mesmerising, after a week of flat grey Atlantic Ocean. She
leaned forward to look for her father, who was fast asleep as usual, head
against the other window, hands crossed on his waistcoat, watch chain
swinging. At the Docks, as soon as he had ducked into the car, he’d berated
it for being small ‘like everything British’, put his head back and began to
snore. But Vivi found the English smallness reassuring: cottages tucked into
hills, lanes snaking away, secret woods and storybook meadows. The car,
driven by Davies – she always liked to ask the servants’ names – felt cosy,
contained. Even the sky looked prettier over here.
‘He’ll never make it through tonight,’ Vivi’s mother said, nodding at her
husband. She rummaged in her handbag for her leather diary, plucking the
pencil from its slot. Born and bred on the Upper East Side, her mother
worked her diary hard. ‘Now, let me see. Ah, yes. It’s fine, we’re not dining
with the Calloways until tomorrow. Perhaps we’ll give Daddy a night off.
What do you say?’
‘I say amen to that.’
Her mother reached her fingertips to rake through the smooth lock of
Vivi’s fair hair that lay over her shoulder.
‘Are you nervous, darling? Or excited?’
‘A bit of both, Mama. I can’t wait to see the house, see London, and
Genna, of course. But don’t you think it’s all kinda scary?’
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