The Young Wives by Elaine Crowley

Sheila Brophy's hopes and dreams are those of any young Dublin girl - to fall in love and get married. So when Fergus, a soldier, proposes she doesn't hesitate to say yes.

It is 1961 when Fergus is posted to Germany. Life isn't easy for Sheila and her twin baby daughters, but she finds friendship with three other women: Lizzie, a mother of 3; Beth, who is desperate for a baby; and Yvette who, with her secretive ways, seems to be the outsider of the group.

But Sheila desperately misses Dublin and, as Fergus begins to spend more and more time drinking in the Mess, she makes a decision with consequences even she hadn't anticipated .....

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