Format:
Book
Title:
The postmistress / Sarah Blake.
Author:
Blake, Sarah, 1960-
Call Number:
FIC BLAKE S
Publisher, Date:
New York : Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2010.
Description:
326 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
In London covering the Blitz with Edward R. Murrow, Frankie Bard meets a Cape Cod doctor in a shelter and promises that she'll deliver a letter for him when she finally returns to the United States. 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.
Subjects:
Postmasters -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Massachusetts -- Franklin -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Radio broadcasting and the war -- Fiction.
London (England) -- History -- Bombardment, 1940-1941 -- Fiction.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
ISBN:
0399156194
9780399156199 (alk. paper)