About the Author

Sarah Blake lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, the poet Josh Weiner, and their two sons.

Reviews

A beautifully written, thought provoking novel that I'm telling everyone I know to read
*Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help*

I loved it. It's exquisite and I wish I'd written it. It's truly a lovely, moving and beautifully evocative book.
*Cathy Kelly*

Unforgettable, insightful and compelling... Perfectly recreates the cadences of passion while also conjuring up the wrenching, nightmare suspense of history in the making
*Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife*

A beautifully written, thought provoking novel that I'm telling everyone I know to read -- Kathryn Stockett, author of The Help
I loved it. It's exquisite and I wish I'd written it. It's truly a lovely, moving and beautifully evocative book. -- Cathy Kelly
Unforgettable, insightful and compelling... Perfectly recreates the cadences of passion while also conjuring up the wrenching, nightmare suspense of history in the making -- Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Ahab's Wife

Frankie Bard is a young female reporter in London during the Blitz, working with the likes of Edward R. Murrow and Eric Severeid. Her broadcasts make an impression on the residents of Franklin, MA-Dr. Will Fitch and wife Emma, garage owner Harry Vale, and postmaster Iris James-who in 1940-41 don't know how or if the war will affect them. Harry is sure the Germans are about to land on their beach, while, hearing Frankie talk of an orphaned boy, Emma and Will don't feel the news goes far enough. Iris insists that "there is an order and a reason" to everything, and "every letter sent.proves it." First novelist Blake doesn't let her work fall prey to easy sentimentality; this story is harsh and desperate, as indeed is war, but her writing is incisive and lush: a house missing a piece of mortar, "as if it had been bitten"; a distracted Iris, with "sand.dribbling out of the bag of her attention." VERDICT Even readers who don't think they like historical novels will love this one and talk it up to their friends. Highly recommended for all fans of beautifully wrought fiction. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/09.]-Bette-Lee Fox, Library Journal Copyright 2009 Reed Business Information.