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Frankie Bard, a young and unseasoned broadcast journalist working in London under the tutelage of Edward R Murrow, connects characters on both sides of the Atlantic in this novel set in early to mid 1941, before the USA had entered the war. Dr Will and Mrs Emma Fitch are newlyweds living in Franklin MA, a small town on the end of Cape Cod, which is where the doctor grew up. Iris James is the postmaster of the town, never wed and age 40, she has come to know and ...more
Frankie Bard, a young and unseasoned broadcast journalist working in London under the tutelage of Edward R Murrow, connects characters on both sides of the Atlantic in this novel set in early to mid 1941, before the USA had entered the war. Dr Will and Mrs Emma Fitch are newlyweds living in Franklin MA, a small town on the end of Cape Cod, which is where the doctor grew up. Iris James is the postmaster of the town, never wed and age 40, she has come to know and ...more
It's a lovely story on life at times of war for 3 different women whose lives intersected in a small town. Iris James came to Franklin as the new Postmaster. Emma Fitch came as a new bride of the town doctor. Frankie Bard met Dr Fitch in London, witnessed directly the horrible impact of war, and came to Franklin with what she thought was her duty. We see how war, directly and indirectly, impacted on each of these women's lives. Mostly, this book is beautiful in its descriptive language, not only
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Lisa
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Janet Wagner
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