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    The Military Wives: Wherever You Are – Nicky’s Story
    The Military Wives: Wherever You Are – Nicky’s Story
    The Military Wives: Wherever You Are – Nicky’s Story
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    The Military Wives: Wherever You Are – Nicky’s Story

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    This is Nicky’s story, one of four individual journeys taken from Wherever You Are by The Military Wives.

    At 33, Nicky Clarke had stopped thinking she would ever fall in love. But they say when you stop looking, love happens – and that was the year she was swept off her feet by Hugo Clarke, a major in the Scots Guards. A year later Hugo and Nicky were married. But life in the military is never calm for long, and the next few years saw Hugo leave for Iraq and Afghanistan for months at a time.

    In married quarters Nicky met other military wives quickly, but forging friendships proved difficult: the occasional coffee morning just wasn’t enough. Nicky decided that this community needed to be brought together.

    With the help of a friend and a local choirmistress, Nicky set a time for the local wives to gather and sing. Before she knew it, a family was growing and a support network was formed. The first Military Wives choir was born.

    Mere months later, the choir would become a nationwide phenomenon. The Wives would go on to perform for the Queen, record a bestselling album and achieve a Christmas number 1.

    This is one woman’s true story of heartbreak and hope; of how singing changed the course of her life.

    Sales of this ebook will benefit the Military Wives Choirs Foundation, a network of choirs that reaches across the military community to provide support, guidance and funding for individual choirs, but first and foremost to bring women closer together through singing. The Foundation is a registered subsidiary charity of SSAFA Forces Help.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins UK
    Release dateApr 25, 2013
    ISBN9780007527120
    The Military Wives: Wherever You Are – Nicky’s Story

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      The Military Wives - The Military Wives

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      Words We Use

      One

      Two

      Three

      Acknowledgements

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      WORDS WE USE

      We use words and phrases that we pick up from our men – military terms and slang that you may not understand. Here’s an explanation of the ones in this book:

      R & R Rest and recreation: the break, usually two weeks, the men get in order to come home in the middle of a long tour

      SSAFA Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association: a charity that helps serving and former members of the armed forces, their families or dependents

      One

      I never expected to marry a soldier. I used to joke I wouldn’t marry anyone who had been married before, anyone in uniform or anyone who smoked. At least he’s given up smoking …

      I met Hugo at St James’s Palace when some friends invited me to go for a drink there. I thought: How do you go for a drink at a palace? Then I said, ‘I’m not dressed for a palace.’ I’d just finished work, but they said I was fine. Hugo was doing ceremonial guard duty and was based there. It turned out girls could go for a drink before dinner, and my friends wanted me to meet him. I was 33 at the time, and I think I’d sort of stopped thinking I’d ever fall in love. But they say that when you stop looking, it happens.

      My feelings for Hugo, who is a major in the Scots Guards, were

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