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It helps with this book to have the character list.  There are many characters and the way the book is laid out it will help you get through to chapter 5 where things will start to really come together.  Hang in there it is worth it!!

Characters from The Postmistress by Sarah Blake

Main Characters

Frances (Frankie) Bard, girl reporter

Iris James, Postmistress in Franklin, Mass.

Others in Franklin, Mass.

Harry Vale, owner of Harry’s garage and a watcher for German subs, he’s concerned about the flag pole at the post office giving them away.
Mr. Flores, bus driver
Dr. Will Fitch, local physician
Emma Fitch, Will’s bride
Otto Schelling, an Austrian—everyone assumes he’s German, he writes and mails a letter every day
Marta, Otto’s wife somewhere in Europe, she never returns his letters.
Florence Cripps, owner of the biggest B & B in town
Johnny Cripps, Florence’s son
Marnie and Frank Niles, other locals
Maggie and Jim Tom Winthrop and four little boys
Manny Alvarez’s cousin, a fisherman, and his little son who wears Will’s old overalls

In London

Edward R. Murrow, Frankie’s boss
Harriet Mendelsohn, Frankie’s roommate and fellow journalist
Jim Dowell (Harriet’s “friend”) and Dusty Parkhurst, London reporters
Billy, six year old neighbor of Frankie’s
Mrs. Phillips, Dr. Fitch’s landlady


Others

Numerous refugees recorded on disc by Frankie including Thomas Kleinmann

Max Preston, Frankie’s boss at the New York Tribune

Jim Holland, journalist in Europe

Martha Gellhorn, a famous WWII reporter who tells the girls at Smith College to “Pay Attention”

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