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The Making of a Lady Wife by Jayanti Mukherjee

The Making of a Lady Wife is an account of being an army's wife by author Jayanti Mukherjee. It is a memoir. 

Sometimes we get to read books written by the army personnel themselves sharing about their experiences and hardships. But how commonly do we come across such books which have been written by a close family member or their  life partner describing their experience from.their end? Let's check the view of the army world through a wife's eyes and heart. 

An army officers life is filled with arduous activities, packed with duties and many sacrifices. Their supporting family members sacrifice a lot and root for them each moment. 


In this book Mrs.Mukherjee shares her thoughts, first time experiences of being the wife of an army officer, tackling her  emotions in the new lifestyle and juggling between different situations to give her bestas well. All these portrayal of lifestyle led by army families are shared with an amusing tone to lighten up things.

 At places the situations also makes us giggle. You can also observe the strong mindedness involved in treading through all these stressful situations and maintain a disciplined lifestyle when they want to be free like any other normal citizens, celebrate festivals and make memories but they  have to understand for the duty of the nation, a fauji's wife and members also have to mould themselves stronger.