THE MILITARY WIVES: WHEREVER YOU ARE - NICKY'S STORY
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 impossible. Isolated and bored, she decided that enough was enough. It was time to bring the community together.
With the help of a choirmistress friend, Nicky organised a time for the local wives to meet and sing. Before she knew it, a family was growing and a support network was formed. A choir was born.
Mere months later, the Military Wives choir would become a nationwide phenomenon. They 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 book 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.