نویسنده : جوجو مویز پس از پایان جنگ جهانی دوم در سال 1946 میلادی، 650 نوعروس برای دیدار با مردانی که در دوران جنگ با آن ها ازدواج کرده اند، دل به دریا می زنند و همراه با افسران نیروی دریایی راهی انگلیس می شوند. با وجود قوانین سخت گیرانه ای که برای همه ی مسافران چه کارگران عرشه و چه خلبانان و افسران عالی رتبه در نظر گرفته شده است، سرنوشت نوعروسان و مردان کشتی به یکدیگر پیوند می خورد جز زنی جوان و پیچیده به نام فرانسس مکنزی. او که هنوز گذشته ی خویش را فراموش نکرده است در طی این سفر زندگی اش متحول می شود. گزیده ای از کتاب : Jean was taken off the ship during a brief, unscheduled stop at Cochin. No one else was allowed to disembark, but several brides watched as she climbed into the little boat, and, refusing to look at them, was motored towards the shore, an officer of the Red Cross beside her, her bag and trunk balanced at the other end. She didn’t wave Frances, who had held her that first evening through something darker, had tried and failed to think of a way to right the situation. Margaret had gone as far as asking to see the captain. He had been very nice, she said afterwards, but if the husband didn’t want her any more, there wasn’t a lot he could do. He hadn’t actually said, ‘Orders are orders,’ but that was what he had meant. She had wanted to wring that bloody WSO’s neck, she said