Critical Praise

Some novels we savor for their lapidary prose, others for their flesh and blood characters, and still others for a sweeping narrative arc that leaves us light-headed 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

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. Sarah Blake seamlessly moves from inside one character to another, in a novel that reminds us of a time when the news travelled from post to paper to radio and that is how we learned about the world THE POSTMISTRESS 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 THE POSTMISTRESS engages the reader's instincts at the deep level of fight or flight. For WWII radio reporter Frankie Bard, however, the gut response to horror is see and tell. Sarah Blake's prose perfectly recreates the cadences of passion and of the inner life while also conjuring up the wrenching, nightmare suspense of history in the making.

—Sena Jeter Naslund, author of AHAB’S WIFE and ABUNDANCE: A NOVEL OF MARIE ANTOINETTE