كتاب كشتي تازه عروس ها: THE SHIP OF BRIDES اثري است از جوجو مويز كه توسط انتشارات 360 درجه براي قرائت زبان آموزان سطح متوسطه به زبان انگليسي ارائه شده است.

پس از پايان جنگ جهاني دوم در سال 1946 ميلادي، 650 نوعروس براي ديدار با مرداني كه در دوران جنگ با آن ها ازدواج كرده اند، دل به دريا مي زنند و همراه با افسران نيروي دريايي راهي انگليس مي شوند. با وجود قوانين سخت گيرانه اي كه براي همه ي مسافران چه كارگران عرشه و چه خلبانان و افسران عالي رتبه در نظر گرفته شده است، سرنوشت نوعروسان و مردان كشتي به يكديگر پيوند مي خورد جز زني جوان و پيچيده به نام فرانسس مكنزي. او كه هنوز گذشته ي خويش را فراموش نكرده است در طي اين سفر زندگي اش متحول مي شود.

Jean was taken off the ship during a brief, unscheduled stop at Cochin. No one else was allowed to disembark, but several brides watched as she climbed into the little boat, and, refusing to look at them, was motored towards the shore, an officer of the Red Cross beside her, her bag and trunk balanced at the other end. She didn’t wave

Frances, who had held her that first evening through something darker, had tried and failed to think of a way to right the situation. Margaret had gone as far as asking to see the captain. He had been very nice, she said afterwards, but if the husband didn’t want her any more, there wasn’t a lot he could do. He hadn’t actually said, ‘Orders are orders,’ but that was what he had meant. She had wanted to wring that bloody WSO’s neck, she said