Description
| Product ID: | 9781509853922 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | The Wartime Chronicles |
| Title: | Dear Mrs Bird |
| Subtitle: | Cosy up with this heartwarming and heartbreaking novel set in wartime London |
| Authors: | Author: AJ Pearce |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An irresistibly funny, charming and moving historical fiction novel. <p><b>Richard & Judy Book Club Pick<br><i>Sunday Times </i>Bestseller<br><br>Set during London's blitz and filled with warmth, wit and heartbreak, <i>Dear Mrs Bird</i> by AJ Pearce is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of strangers and the courage of ordinary people.</b><br><br>London, 1941. Amid the falling bombs Emmeline Lake dreams of becoming a fearless Lady War Correspondent. Unfortunately, Emmy instead finds herself employed as a typist for the terrifying Henrietta Bird, the renowned agony aunt at <i>Woman’s Friend</i> magazine. Mrs Bird refuses to read, let alone answer, letters containing any form of Unpleasantness, and definitely not letters from the women the war has left lovelorn, grief-stricken or conflicted.<br><br>But the thought of these desperate women waiting for an answer becomes impossible for Emmy to ignore. She decides she simply must help and secretly starts to write back – after all, what harm could that possibly do?<br><br><b>'The most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love' – Marian Keyes<br>'Utterly charming and helplessly funny' – Jenny Colgan</b><br><b>'A proper comfort read' – India Knight</b></p> |
| Imprint Name: | Picador |
| Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2018-12-27 |
