The Postmistress (Sarah Blake)

This lovely, intensely moving novel explores issues of love and truth against the backdrop of WWII. Three women's lives are intertwined in a small town at the tip of Cape Cod: the local doctor's young bride, a cocky radio reporter, and the town's postmistress. Their lives are all affected by experiences that happen, in the author's words, "around the edges" of the war. There are no combat scenes here, though part of the story is set in London during the Blitz and part follows the horror of the mass deportations of Jews in Europe. Still, the war has profound effects on all of them, and threatens their deepest convictions. I became very involved in their lives, and their actions were always believable and poignant. Beautifully written.