The Postmistress by Sarah Blake (EN)
The Letter that Ends the Story and Starts the Encounter There are books that I bought but never read. The Postmistress was one of them. The book was neatly stacked on my shelves since many weeks ago and was one of the novel that I avoided just because it’s romance. I’m always weak to romance novel because the sad ending got my eyes damp and my nose runny – most of the times. Even though the novel is categorized as romance, the story turns out to be interesting enough. Sarah Blake presents the love story between Emma and Will Fitch during the years before World War II as resolutely, beautifully, ironically and deeply. Iris James is a postmaster who serves her duty in a small town of Cape Cod, Franklin, Massachusetts. Working as a postmaster gives her the control over a million of letters that come through her office, originating from other places and delivering various kinds of news. A string of sentences that makes out the whole story in a letter may change the life or en...