On My Wishlist is a weekly event highlighting a book that I really want to read. The book may be 20 years old, or the pub date may not be until next year, but either way I'm excited about it, and hopefully you will be too!
The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
Pub. Date: February 9th, 2010
Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books/ Penguin Group (USA)
Hardcover
326 pages
326 pages
Synopsis from Goodreads
Filled with stunning parallels to
today's world, The Postmistress is a sweeping novel about the loss of innocence
of two extraordinary women-and of two countries torn apart by war.
On the eve of the United States's
entrance into World War II in 1940, Iris James, the postmistress of Franklin, a
small town on Cape Cod, does the unthinkable: She doesn't deliver a letter. In
London, American radio gal Frankie Bard is working with Edward R. Murrow,
reporting on the Blitz. One night in a bomb shelter, she meets a doctor from
Cape Cod with a letter in his pocket, a letter Frankie vows to deliver when she
returns from Germany and France, where she is to record the stories of war
refugees desperately trying to escape.
The residents of Franklin think the
war can't touch them- but as Frankie's radio broadcasts air, some know that the
war is indeed coming. And when Frankie arrives at their doorstep, the two
stories collide in a way no one could have foreseen. The Postmistress is an
unforgettable tale of the secrets we must bear, or bury. It is about what
happens to love during wartime, when those we cherish leave. And how every
story-of love or war-is about looking left when we should have been looking
right.
So, what do you think? Is it one that you'd like to add to your wish list? Have you already read it?
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