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Title: The Postmistress
Author: Sarah Blake
Narrator: Orlagh Cassidy
Format: Unabridged
Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-09-10
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 595 votes
Genres: Fiction, Historical
Publisher's Summary:
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.
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 ...
Critic Reviews:
Blake captures two different worldsa naïve nation in denial and, across the ocean, a continent wracked with terrorwith a deft sense of character and plot, and a perfect willingness to take on big, complex questions, such as the merits of truth and truth-telling in wartime. (Publishers Weekly)
Matching harrowing action with reflection, romance with pathos, Blakes emotional saga of conscience and genocide is poised to become a best-seller of the highest echelon. (Booklist, starred review)
a moving page-turner from a talented writer. (Bookmarks Magazine)
