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Imagine the only news of the world you receive is on a radio broadcast if you are lucky enough to even have a radio, or from a newspaper. Apr 30, 2010 communications by post are one of two midcentury technologies that serve as story engines in the postmistress. On the verge of world war ii, women on both sides of the atlantic realize no letter can ever tell the whole story. The postmistress is a story that you will be thinking about weeks and months later.
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The sunday times bestseller the postmistress by sarah blake is a heartrending and profoundly moving story of love and loss in world war ii. Content includes books from bestselling, midlist and debut authors. In this day and age of modern technology imagine, if you can, the days of snail mail. She lives in washington dc with her husband, the poet joshua weiner, their two sons, and a little white dog.
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