What We’re Reading at Perrot
The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake
The time is 1940 to 1941, and this novel involves the effects of world events on three very different women. There is Iris, the postmistress of the title, handling her unusual job in a small town on Cape Cod. Emma is the new young wife of the town’s doctor. And Frankie is a news reporter working with Edward R. Murrow in faraway London during and after the blitz. How their lives intersect by accident and fate against a backdrop of war is handled in an intriguing and imaginative way. You will not soon forget these women.
