Dear Mrs. Bird

b>The Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and Sunday Times Bestseller, Dear /b>b>Mrs Bird, now with a beautiful festive design and an exclusive new piece by the author./b>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 formidable Henrietta Bird, the renowned agony aunt at Woman's Friend magazine. Mrs Bird refuses to read, let alone answer, letters containing any form of Unpleasantness, and definitely not those from the lovelorn, grief-stricken or morally conflicted.But the thought of these desperate women waiting for an answer at this most desperate of times 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?b>This edition of Dear Mrs Bird has been specially designed for the Christmas season and includes exclusive new content: 'The Real Henrietta Bird's Christmas Pudding' for readers to enjoy. /b>b>'The sweetest, most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love' - Marian Keyes/b>b>'A proper comfort read' - India Knight/b>b>'A joy from start to finish. Dear Mrs Bird is as funny as it is heartwarming' - John Boyne/b>

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If I had only known how much I was going to adore Dear Mrs Bird, I wouldn't have gobbled it down all at once. Funny, fresh, and touching, Dear Mrs Bird is a treat of a read. Annie Barrows, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Product details

• Authors: A J Pearce, AJ Pearce
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781509853922
• ISBN: 978-1-5098-5392-2
• No. of pages: 308
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 196 mm x 18 mm
• Series: The Emmy Lake Chronicles; The Wartime Chronicles
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Contemporary literature (from 1945); London, Greater London, Historical romance, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Literary, Second World War fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Central London, Humorous fiction, c 1940 to c 1949, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)