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Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam
February 2010
On Sale: February 9, 2010
336 pages
ISBN: 0399156194
EAN: 9780399156199
Hardcover
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Those who carry the truth sometimes bear a terrible
weight... It is 1940. France has fallen. Bombs are dropping on
London. And President Roosevelt is promising he won't send
our boys to fight in "foreign wars." But American radio gal Frankie Bard, the first woman to
report from the Blitz in London, wants nothing more than to
bring the war home. Frankie's radio dispatches crackle
across the Atlantic ocean, imploring listeners to pay
attention--as the Nazis bomb London nightly, and Jewish
refugees stream across Europe. Frankie is convinced that if
she can just get the right story, it will wake Americans to
action and they will join the fight. Meanwhile, in Franklin, Massachusetts, a small town on Cape
Cod, Iris James hears Frankie's broadcasts and knows that
it is only a matter of time before the war arrives on
Franklin's shores. In charge of the town's mail, Iris
believes that her job is to deliver and keep people's
secrets, passing along the news that letters carry. And one
secret she keeps are her feelings for Harry Vale, the town
mechanic, who inspects the ocean daily, searching in vain
for German U-boats he is certain will come. Two single
people in midlife, Iris and Harry long ago gave up hope of
ever being in love, yet they find themselves unexpectedly
drawn toward each other. Listening to Frankie as well are Will and Emma Fitch, the
town's doctor and his new wife, both trying to escape a
fragile childhood and forge a brighter future. When Will
follow's Frankie's siren call into the war, Emma's worst
fears are realized. Promising to return in six months, Will
goes to London to offer his help, and the lives of the
three women entwine. Alternating between an America still cocooned in its
inability to grasp the danger at hand and a Europe being
torn apart by war, The Postmistress gives us two women who
find themselves unable to deliver the news, and a third
woman desperately waiting for news yet afraid to hear it. Sarah Blake's The Postmistress shows how we bear the fact
that war goes on around us while ordinary lives continue.
Filled with stunning parallels to today, it is a remarkable
novel.
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