Wait for the Day

by Denise Robertson

As World War II comes to an end, four young servicewomen separate and return to their former lives. They each have their dreams, but what will the future hold for these women who survived and were irrevocably changed by war?

384 pages, Paperback

First published June 28, 2001

About the author

Denise Robertson MBE was a writer of fiction, a television broadcaster, and an editor of books from the This Morning television show.

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Reviews

[KOMET · Rating 5 out of 5]

This novel had special resonance for me because of the living connections I have to the time that it covers (i.e. the end of the Second World War and the early postwar years up to the mid-1950s) in the form of my parents. Dad was a 19-year old GI serving with a segregated unit in Patton's Third Army in Czechoslovakia at the time of V-E Day while Mom was close to completing her junior year of high school.

The lives of these 4 women (Celia, Amy, Peggy, and Joyce) who became the best of friends during their service together in the British Army Transport Service (ATS) branch off into different directions at war's end, yet in the intervening years come to intersect in interesting and unexpected ways. I so enjoyed being part of the journey. Anyone with a deep interest in well-written historical fiction will love this novel.

[Jillian Blanchard · Rating 4 out of 5]

easy reading

[Daryl Dixon · Rating 4 out of 5]

By the time I’m putting up this review I have previously read ‘The Second Wife’ from this author and that persuaded me to read more from this author.About the book what I can I say is it’s fairly a good one and ww2 nostalgic story.But I’m starting to wonder why this book has got a low rating even though it doesn’t seem bad at all compared to the books that are publishing in the present.Ending is not so sad and not happy either.Hope to read more from the author.