The GI Bride

Iris Jones Simantel

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Penguin Books Ltd
24 July 2013

Memoirs

In this dramatic sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller, Far From the East End, we follow a young girl from London to New York, Chicago and Las Vegas in her struggle to find work, love and a sense of belonging in a foreign land.

Every girl's dream was to be whisked away by a handsome GI . . .

Iris Jones had escaped the Blitz but was living in crippling poverty after the war - until a chance meeting changed her life. Aged just sixteen, she fell in love and married US soldier Bob Irvine. And soon after she set sail for a new life in America.

It was the 1950s and the land of hope, dreams and Doris Day movies. But Iris ended up in a cramped Chicago bungalow with Bob's parents. With a baby on the way and a husband turning daily into a stranger, Iris was wracked by homesickness. Trapped and desperately lonely, she had to make a fresh start, in a country where hope and opportunity thrived.

In this dramatic sequel to the Sunday Times bestseller Far From the East End, we follow a young girl from London to New York, Chicago and Las Vegas in her struggle to find work, love and a sense of belonging in a foreign land.

By: Iris Jones Simantel
Imprint: Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 235g
ISBN: 9781405912648
ISBN 10: 1405912642
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 24 July 2013
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Iris Jones Simantel grew up in Dagenham and South Oxhey, before moving to the US with her GI husband Bob at the tender age of 18. She now resides in Devon where she enjoys writing as a pastime. Her first memoir about her childhood, Far from the East End, beat several thousand other entries to win the Saga Life Stories Competition.

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