by Sarah Blake · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141046617
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«The Postmistress» is the historical novel by Sarah Blake, published by Penguin Books in paperback (336 pages, in English).
London, 1940: reporter Frankie Bard tells stories of survivors under the bombing. In Cape Cod, postmistress Iris James believes her letters will bring good or bad news, and Emma Fitch waits for her doctor husband. Frankie finds a letter and promises to deliver it, and the fates of the three cross in a story of war, love and loss.
Originally published in 2010, it won the Exclusive Books Boeke Prize. This edition was published on January 7, 2011.
A read for book clubs and for those who enjoy historical fiction about World War II with female protagonists.
Sarah Blake is an American writer based in Washington D.C. Her debut novel Grange House, set in Victorian era Maine, was published in 2001. Her second, The Postmistress, a story set in Second World War Massachusetts and London, was published in 2010, and a third, The Guest Book, the story of two intertwined families in twentieth-century Germany and the U.S., appeared in 2019.
