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"Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. The Postmistress is one of those rare books. When I wasn't reading it, I was thinking about it. It made me homesick for a time before I was even born. What's remarkable, however, is how relevant the story is to our present-day times. A beautifully written, thought-provoking novel that I'm telling everyone I know to read." -Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help
“An unforgettable, insightful, and compelling novel
Sarah Blake's prose perfectly re-creates the cadences of passion and of the inner life while also conjuring wrenching, nightmare suspense of history in the making.
-Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
"The Postmistress is the fictional communiqué readers have waited for. Sarah Blake has brought small-town American life and ravaged Europe during World War II to us with cinematic immediacy. The romantic, harrowing-and utterly inimitable- story of radio journalist Frankie Bard (appalled yet intoxicated by tragedy as no character I've ever read before) contains the uncompromised sensibility found in the writings of Martha Gellhorn. The Postmistress belongs in what Gellhorn called the 'permanent and necessary' library.'
-Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist and Devotion
"Some novels we savor for their lapidary prose, others for their flesh-and-blood characters, and still others for a sweeping narrative are that leaves us lightheaded and changed; Sarah Blake's masterful The Postmistress serves us all this and more. Compassionate, insightful, and unsentimental, this masterful novel is told in a rare and highly successful omniscient voice, one that delves deeply into the seemingly random nature of love and war and story itself. This is a superb book!"
-Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog
“An unforgettable, insightful, and compelling novel
Sarah Blake's prose perfectly re-creates the cadences of passion and of the inner life while also conjuring wrenching, nightmare suspense of history in the making.
-Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife and Abundance: A Novel of Marie Antoinette
"The Postmistress is the fictional communiqué readers have waited for. Sarah Blake has brought small-town American life and ravaged Europe during World War II to us with cinematic immediacy. The romantic, harrowing-and utterly inimitable- story of radio journalist Frankie Bard (appalled yet intoxicated by tragedy as no character I've ever read before) contains the uncompromised sensibility found in the writings of Martha Gellhorn. The Postmistress belongs in what Gellhorn called the 'permanent and necessary' library.'
-Howard Norman, author of The Bird Artist and Devotion
"Some novels we savor for their lapidary prose, others for their flesh-and-blood characters, and still others for a sweeping narrative are that leaves us lightheaded and changed; Sarah Blake's masterful The Postmistress serves us all this and more. Compassionate, insightful, and unsentimental, this masterful novel is told in a rare and highly successful omniscient voice, one that delves deeply into the seemingly random nature of love and war and story itself. This is a superb book!"
-Andre Dubus III, author of House of Sand and Fog