The English Wife ADRIENNE CHINN One More Chapter a division of HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 2020 Copyright © Adrienne Chinn 2020 Cover design by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 2020 Cover images © Shutterstock.com Adrienne Chinn asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue copy of this book is available from the British Library. This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. 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Source ISBN: 9780008314583 Ebook Edition © June 2020 ISBN: 9780008314576 Version: 2020-02-17 Table of Contents Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Epigraph About This Book Part 1 Chapter 1: Liverpool – 5 February 1946 Chapter 2: New York City – 9 September 2011 Chapter 3: Over the Atlantic Ocean – 11 September 2011 Chapter 4: Norwich, England – 26 July 1940 Chapter 5: En Route to New York From London – 11 September 2001 Chapter 6: Norwich, England – 27 July 1940 Chapter 7: Gander International Airport, Newfoundland – 12 September 2001 Chapter 8: Norwich, England – 27 July 1940 Chapter 9: Northern Newfoundland Coast – 12 September 2001 Chapter 10: Norwich, England – 30 July 1940 Chapter 11: Tippy’s Tickle, Newfoundland – 12 September 2001 Chapter 12: Norwich, England – 7 August 1940 Chapter 13: Tippy’s Tickle – 12 September 2001 Chapter 14: Norwich, England – 21 December 1940 Chapter 15: Tippy’s Tickle – 13 September 2001 Chapter 16: Norwich, England – 14 February 1941 Chapter 17: Tippy’s Tickle – 13 September 2001 Chapter 18: Holkham Beach, Norfolk – 21 June 1941 Chapter 19: Tippy’s Tickle – 13 September 2001 Chapter 20: Norwich, England – 20 September 1941 Chapter 21: Tippy’s Tickle – 14 September 2001 Chapter 22: Norwich, England – 7 December 1941 Chapter 23: Tippy’s Tickle – 15 September 2001 Chapter 24: Norwich, England – 14 February 1942 Chapter 25: Tippy’s Tickle – 15 September 2001 Chapter 26: Norwich, England – 14 March 1942 Chapter 27: Tippy’s Tickle – 15 September 2001 Chapter 28: Norwich, England – 27 April 1942 Chapter 29: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2001 Chapter 30: Norwich, England – 11 September 1942 Chapter 31: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2001 Chapter 32: Norwich, England – 16 September 1942 Chapter 33: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2001 Chapter 34: Norwich, England – 4 October 1942 Chapter 35: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2001 Chapter 36: Norwich, England – 13 November 1942 Chapter 37: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2001 Chapter 38: Letters – Winter 1942–1943 Chapter 39: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2001 Chapter 40: Norwich, England – 24 December 1943 Chapter 41: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2001 Chapter 42: London, England – 28 December 1943 Chapter 43: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2001 Chapter 44: Monte Cassino, Italy – 19 March 1944 Chapter 45: Tippy’s Tickle – 17 September 2001 Chapter 46: Norwich, England – 11 August 1944 Chapter 47: Tippy’s Tickle – 17 September 2001 Chapter 48: Gander, Newfoundland – 17 September 2001 Part 2 Chapter 49: Gander, Newfoundland – 11 September 2011 Chapter 50: Tippy’s Tickle – 12 February 1946 Chapter 51: Tippy’s Tickle – 12 September 2011 Chapter 52: Tippy’s Tickle – 11 August 1947 Chapter 53: Tippy’s Tickle – 12 September 2011 Chapter 54: Tippy’s Tickle – 24 July 1948 Chapter 55: Tippy’s Tickle – 12 September 2011 Chapter 56: Tippy’s Tickle – 1 April 1949 Chapter 57: Tippy’s Tickle – 13 September 2011 Chapter 58: Tippy’s Tickle – 24 October 1949 Chapter 59: Tippy’s Tickle – 13 September 2011 Chapter 60: Tippy’s Tickle – 25 September 1952 Chapter 61: Tippy’s Tickle – 13 September 2011 Chapter 62: Norwich, England – 21 November 1952 Chapter 63: Tippy’s Tickle – 14 September 2011 Chapter 64: Tippy’s Tickle – 14 June 1953 Chapter 65: Tippy’s Tickle – 15 September 2011 Chapter 66: Norwich – 2 August 1953 Chapter 67: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2011 Chapter 68: Norwich – 3 September 1953 Chapter 69: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2011 Chapter 70: Tippy’s Tickle – 19 June 1954 Chapter 71: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2011 Chapter 72: Norwich – 1 December 1961 Chapter 73: Tippy’s Tickle – 16 September 2011 Chapter 74: Tippy’s Tickle – 24 June 1967 Chapter 75: Tippy’s Tickle – 17 September 2011 Chapter 76: Tippy’s Tickle – 10 July 1962 Chapter 77: Tippy’s Tickle – 17 September 2011 Chapter 78: Tippy’s Tickle – 17 September 2011 Chapter 79: Tippy’s Tickle – 24 September 2011 Chapter 80: Seal Point Lighthouse – 24 September 2011 Epilogue: Wesleyville, Newfoundland – 5 October 2011 Acknowledgements About the Author Also by Adrienne Chinn About the Publisher For my mother, Charlotte Mary (Mae) Edwards Chinn Always a Newfoundlander ‘The huge island … stands, with its sheer, beetling cliffs, out of the ocean, a monstrous mass of rock and gravel, almost without soil, like a strange thing from the bottom of the great deep, lifted up, suddenly, into sunshine and storm, but belonging to the watery darkness out of which it has been reared; the eye, accustomed to richer and softer scenes, finds something of a strange and almost startling beauty in its bold, hard outlines, cut out on every side, against the sky.’ – Robert Traill Spence Lowell, nineteenth-century American missionary About This Book This ebook meets all accessibility requirements and standards. Please be advised this book features the following content warnings: bereavement, suicide, descriptions of war. PART ONE Chapter 1 Liverpool – 5 February 1946 The grey bulk of the RMS Mauritania sits like a warehouse alongside the Liverpool dock. Black smoke belches from its two large funnels. Ellie bounces Emmett, swaddled in a thick wool blanket and the garments she’d spent the winter knitting by the fireplace, and coos into his shell-like ear. He fixes her with his impassive blue/brown gaze. Such an odd little man with his one blue eye and his
