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It is 1940 and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters and later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets. But for her listeners the war is far from home. Listening to Frankie are Iris James a Cape Cod postmistress and Emma Fitch a doctors wife. Iris hears the winds stirring and knows that soon the letters she delivers will bear messages of hope or tragedy. Emma is desperate for news of London where her husband is working - she counts the days until his return. But one night in London the fates of all three women entwine when Frankie finds a letter - a letter she vows to deliver... See Judys Review See Richards Review See Sarah Blake talk about
her book Reading Group Questions Read our exclusive Q&A with Sarah Blake Write a Review for The Postmistress Judys Review Novels about the Second World War have a tendency to leave me cold: Sarah Blakes The Postmistress proved to be a glorious shining exception; a mesmerising story of bravery passion and diabolical evil. The story opens in 1940 and simultaneously traces the lives of three American women: Iris postmistress of a small town at the tip of Cape Cod; Emma the local doctors new wife and Frankie a glamorous radio reporter broadcasting bulletins to the US from London now being heavily bombed nightly in the Nazi blitzkrieg. As postmistress almost everything affecting the lives of the people back in Franklin passes through Iriss hands. She takes her responsibilities so seriously
that now aged 40 she remains unmarried and a virgin. But she is gradually drawn to an older man Harry who runs the town garage. Their gentle tender romance unfolds against the heart-stopping backdrop of Frankies nightly live dispatches into their cosy homes describing the hellish scenes in London. Emma and her husband Will listen to them too appalled at Frankies vivid portraits of suffering and death. Eventually the doctor decides he must go to London and do what he can to help. A devastated Emma cannot stop him. Meanwhile Frankie is agitating to be sent to Nazi-occupied Europe - America is still neutral and its journalists can travel there - because she is convinced Hitler has moved beyond herding Jews into ghettos and has embarked on a covert policy of genocide. Her subsequent interviews
with Jewish families fleeing the pogrom are among the most moving passages I can remember reading. Richards Review
her book Reading Group Questions Read our exclusive Q&A with Sarah Blake Write a Review for The Postmistress Judys Review Novels about the Second World War have a tendency to leave me cold: Sarah Blakes The Postmistress proved to be a glorious shining exception; a mesmerising story of bravery passion and diabolical evil. The story opens in 1940 and simultaneously traces the lives of three American women: Iris postmistress of a small town at the tip of Cape Cod; Emma the local doctors new wife and Frankie a glamorous radio reporter broadcasting bulletins to the US from London now being heavily bombed nightly in the Nazi blitzkrieg. As postmistress almost everything affecting the lives of the people back in Franklin passes through Iriss hands. She takes her responsibilities so seriously
that now aged 40 she remains unmarried and a virgin. But she is gradually drawn to an older man Harry who runs the town garage. Their gentle tender romance unfolds against the heart-stopping backdrop of Frankies nightly live dispatches into their cosy homes describing the hellish scenes in London. Emma and her husband Will listen to them too appalled at Frankies vivid portraits of suffering and death. Eventually the doctor decides he must go to London and do what he can to help. A devastated Emma cannot stop him. Meanwhile Frankie is agitating to be sent to Nazi-occupied Europe - America is still neutral and its journalists can travel there - because she is convinced Hitler has moved beyond herding Jews into ghettos and has embarked on a covert policy of genocide. Her subsequent interviews
with Jewish families fleeing the pogrom are among the most moving passages I can remember reading. Richards Review
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