Home front - Kristin Hannah

A story of love, loss, heroism and ultimately hope that gives a profoundly honest look at modern marriage and the price of war on an ordinary family.

Like many couples, Michael and Jolene have to face the pressures of everyday life – children, careers, bills, household chores – even as their twelve-year marriage is falling apart. Then an unexpected deployment sends Jolene deep into harm's way and leaves defence attorney Michael at home, unaccustomed to being a single parent to their two girls. As a mother, it agonizes Jolene to leave her family, but as a soldier she has always understood the true meaning of duty. In her letters home, she paints a rose-coloured version of her life on the front line, shielding her family from the truth. But war will change Jolene in ways that none of them could have foreseen. When tragedy strikes, Michael must face his darkest fear and fight a battle of his own for everything that matters to his family.