Fiction Pick of the Week: The Postmistress

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake 2010

The year is 1940. While the war raged in Europe the United States sat on the sidelines.
Frankie Baird, an American woman radio journalist, working with Edward R. Murrow, broadcast to Americans from London during the height of the Blitz. She revealed to her listeners the horror and dislocation of the Jews as they streamed across Europe in an effort to make the U.S.A. pay attention and intervene in the war.
Meanwhile, in Frankie’s small hometown on Cape Cod two women, Emma and Iris listened to her broadcasts and realized that war would soon touch their lives too. Emma’s husband, the town’s doctor heeded the call to London to help the victims of the war. Iris, the postmistress, keeper of the town’s secrets ensured the mail moved freely across the miles—or did she? The lives of the three women collide when Frankie returns to her hometown no longer able to report on the atrocities, and haunted by the journalists code to “Seek the truth, Report it, Minimize harm”.
This is a beautifully written and captivating story that will stay with you long after you have read it.

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