The English Wife
ADRIENNE CHINN
One More Chapter
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Source ISBN: 9780008314583
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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
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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
