The Best Soldier's Wife

The Best Soldier's Wife is the deeply personal story of one woman trying to cope with the shocks and aftershocks of Canada's war in Afghanistan, told in a series of letters from a military wife in Victoria to the wife of a fictionalized Chief of Defense Staff. In her letters she uses a number of real events to ground her story in the nitty-gritty of the actual war as it unfolded. Each letter ends with a list of the real soldiers who died during the course of her story.