Dear Mrs Bird [electronic resource] : Emmeline Lake Chronicles, Book 1
Pearce, AJ2018
eAudioBook
The Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and Sunday Times Bestseller 'Funny, fresh, and touching, Dear Mrs Bird is a treat of a read.' Annie Barrows, author of The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society 'The sweetest, most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love . . . It'll be huge; it deserves to be' Marian Keyes London, 1941. Emmeline Lake and her best friend Bunty are trying to stay cheerful despite the Luftwaffe making life thoroughly annoying for everyone. Emmy dreams of becoming a Lady War Correspondent and when she spots a job advertisement in the newspaper she seizes her chance – but after a rather unfortunate misunderstanding, she finds herself typing letters for the formidable Henrietta Bird, the renowned agony aunt of Woman's Friend magazine. Mrs Bird is very clear: letters containing any form of Unpleasantness must go straight into the bin. But as Emmy reads the desperate pleas from women who may have Gone Too Far with the wrong man, or can't bear to let their children be evacuated, she decides the only thing for it is to secretly write back . . . Irresistibly funny and enormously moving, Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a love letter to the enduring power of friendship, the kindness of strangers and the courage of ordinary people in extraordinary times. 'A marvellous treat. Charming and delightful' Nina Stibbe 'A joy from start to finish. Dear Mrs Bird is as funny as it is heart-warming' John Boyne
Main title:
Author:
Pearce, AJ, AuthorPopplewell, Anna, Narrator
Edition:
Unabridged
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Pan Macmillan, 2018
Collation:
1 online resource (1 audio file)
Series:
Emmeline Lake Chronicles
Biography/History:
AJ Pearce grew up in Hampshire and studied at the University of Sussex. A chance discovery of a 1939 woman's magazine became the inspiration for her ever-growing collection and her first novel Dear Mrs Bird. She now lives in the south of England.
ISBN:
9781509853915
Language:
English
BRN:
388099