Month: September 2019

The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Posted on by bschick23 in Fiction

Title: The Postmistress
Author: Sarah Blake
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: February 1, 2011
Page Length: 371 pages

The Postmistress is a novel that allows a reader an easy escape. A journalist is assigned to cover the beginning of World War II in Europe. Her journey leads her to cross paths with citizens of Franklin, Massachusetts. There is a postal worker questioning whether she should deliver a letter to a grieving, expecting wife. The journalist, Frankie Bard, records stories of victims of war and reports via radio broadcast in the early morning hours which bothers the postmistresses conscious. The Postmistress is a beautiful novel on relationships and the choices made in them.

From the author’s website:

Sarah Blake is the author of Full Turn, a chapbook of poems, Runaway Girls, an artist book in collaboration with the artist, Robin Kahn, and three novels: Grange House; and the New York Times Bestsellers, The Postmistress, and The Guest Book. She lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, the poet Joshua Weiner, and their two sons.

sarahblakewrites.com

The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth

Posted on by bschick23 in Thriller

Title: The Mother-In-Law
Author: Sally Hepworth
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Format: Hardcover
Publication Date: April 23, 2019
Length: 347 pages

I love Sally Hepworth’s style of writing. She writes from the daughter-in-law’s point of view and the mother-in-law’s point of view as well as other family members. The novel is a thriller in relation to the complications mother-in-laws and daughter-in-laws have. Lucy desires a close relationship with a mother-in-law that keeps a distance from her. She knows she isn’t the ideal daughter-in-law according to Diana, a leader in the community who helps women in need. She doesn’t understand Diana’s behaviors and how closed off she is. Hepworth slowly reveals both sides of the story that shows both of their strengths and weaknesses. Her characters are so well developed.

From the author’s website:

Sally Hepworth is the USA Today bestselling author of six novels, most recently The Mother-In-Law (2019). Sally’s books have been labelled “enchanting” by The Herald Sun, “smart and engaging” by Publisher’s Weekly, and New York Times bestselling authors Liane Moriarty and Emily Giffin have praised Sally’s novels as “women’s fiction at its finest” and “totally absorbing”.

Sally’s novels are published in more than 20 territories worldwide.

​Sally lives in Melbourne, Australia with her husband and three children.

Author’s website:
https://www.sallyhepworthauthor.com/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/sallyhepworthauthor/