Dear Mrs Bird: Cosy up with this heartwarming and heartbreaking novel set in wartime London

ISBN-13: 9781509853922 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 320 str.

AJ Pearce

Opis

An irresistibly funny, charming and moving debut from a sensational talent, sure to be one of the best-loved and most talked about books of the year

The debut Sunday Times Top Ten 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

Recenzje

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

O autorze

AJ Pearce grew up in Hampshire, England. Her debut novel, Dear Mrs Bird, was a Sunday Times and international bestseller and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut of the Year and the Historical Writers' Association Debut Crown for best historical debut. Yours Cheerfully is the second novel in The Emmy Lake Chronicles.