AJ Pearce

Dear Mrs Bird

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Produktbeschreibung

Richard & Judy Book Club Pick
Sunday Times Bestseller

Set during London's blitz and filled with warmth, wit and heartbreak, Dear Mrs Bird by AJ Pearce is a wartime story about the power of friendship, the kindness of strangers and the courage of ordinary people.

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 Woman's Friend 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.

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?

'The most uplifting, lovely book about courage, friendship, love' - Marian Keyes
'Utterly charming and helplessly funny' - Jenny Colgan
'A proper comfort read' - India Knight

Produktdetails

• The Wartime Chronicles 1
• Verlag: Macmillan Publishers International / Picador
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 76598
• Main Market Ed.
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahren
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 127mm x 195mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 230g
• ISBN-13: 9781509853922
• ISBN-10: 1509853928
• Artikelnr.: 53885444

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

A winning wartime romp . . . as hilarious as it is moving. Emmy is truly charming. When her upper lip finally wobbles
the reader's will
too. In the end
the novel's spirit is madly winning
and its foregrounding of wartime women seems spiffingly modern.
The sweetest
most uplifting
lovely book about courage
friendship
love . . . It'll be huge; it deserves to be
This story of female friendship is just the tonic for that jaded feeling that the world is ugly and mad.
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. It has ruined me for all the books I'm supposed to be reading. Where will I find another novel so fresh and delightful?
A joyfully uplifting and optimistic novel . . . a timely story of courage and good humour in adversity.
A marvellous treat. Charming and delightful.
When we need it most
Dear Mrs Bird is a wonderful
uplifting novel and
like its heroine
its breathless
giddy tone has real depth and heart. In the very worst of times
Britain's 'finest generation' always found the light in the darkness
which is an important message worth remembering during our own worst times.
Here's a refreshing take on the Second World War novel. Dear Mrs Bird is charming without being twee
full of fun and heart
and will being you to tears.
Dear Mrs Bird is an adorable novel
charming
funny
and uplifting . . . Catch a cold immediately and retire to bed with it
Irresistibly charming and delightful
I fell in love with Dear Mrs Bird on page one and completely adored every single word . . . a wonderfully heartwarming book
which I will recommend to everyone I know
A joy from start to finish. Dear Mrs Bird is as funny as it is heart-warming.
An utterly charming story of friendship
heartbreak and heroism... You'll laugh
you'll cry
you'll love it
I've never read a novel that has grabbed me by the heart quite so much as this one
Books that make you shake with laughter and sob with tears are rare. I gulped this one down but didn't stop thinking about it for a long time
Witty
wise and full of charm . . . I absolutely loved it
Utterly charming and helplessly funny
Dear Mrs Bird is an utterly enchanting debut: cheering
compelling
charming. If you loved Their Finest this is for you.
A thoroughly lovely book
and reading it is like a great big shot of serotonin in the arm. I defy anyone not to fall for its numerous charms
Dear Mrs Bird is an adorable novel
charming
funny
and uplifting; a WW2 London-Blitz tears 'n' cheers plucky-gal romance with excellent jokes
serious sorrows
a great friendship and a Celia Johnson accent. Catch a cold immediately and retire to bed with it
What better tonic for times like these than this spritely tale of female guts and derring do in wartime London. A story bathed in good cheer
it celebrates the power of female friendship in difficult times and how writing a letter might heal the sorest of hearts. A charm of a novel
undercut by a seam of genuine sadness at the losses we must all face as life rolls on.
This adorable debut set during the Blitz is already being called the literary tonight of the year. Emmy Lake is secretary to Mrs Henrietta Bird
the fearsome agony aunt of Woman's Friend magazine
who refuse to consider letters containing any 'unpleasantness'. But Emmy rebels and starts secretly to writer back to correspondents. Uplifting
funny and enormously moving.
Dear Mrs Bird is a triumph - authentic
funny and packed with heart. Emmeline Lake is the perfect heroine
completely embodying the spirit of the times. I rooted for her from the very first page
laughed
cried and cheered with her to the finish. This is an utter delight of a book
deliciously drawn and gloriously uplifting. I adored it!
Imagine Bridget Jones running amok in the wartime world of Mrs Miniver. AJ Pearce's hoot of a debut
Dear Mrs Bird is a comic confection that is sweetly uplifting.
Dear Mrs Bird has the edge . . . I loved the concept of a light-hearted historical novel inspired by real Forties letters sent into advice columns
which highlight how women's lives were affected amid the 'stiff upper lip' attitudes of the time. If it appears on our screens as a series any time soon
remember I called it first.
What a lovely
cheery novel this is. Skewering snobbery and prudishness with the lightest of touches
it also portrays the difficulties of the home front.
A wonderful wartime story that is funny
yet poignant and realistic. I can't wait for the next in the series.
A delight: witty
tear-jerking and a vivid depiction of the time. I absolutely loved it.
Like Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
Dear Mrs Bird manages to strike a delicate balance between funny and heart breaking. When we need it most
Dear Mrs Bird is a wonderful
uplifting novel and
like its heroine
its breathless
giddy tone has real depth and heart.
Thoroughly charming . . . A joyous tale about female friendship
A gloriously old-fashioned tale with guts and I absolutely adored it
Uplifting
moving and deeply enjoyable
Dear Mrs Bird is a gem of a novel
Quirky and charming
A proper comfort read
Unmissable... An enchanting debut
Incredibly funny yet very touching
[Dear Mrs Bird] explores friendship and romance against the bleak backdrop of the Blitz with trademark British humour and a stiff upper lip.
Charming
funny and moving
this is a total joy of a read
A delicious debut
chirpy
funny
romantic and genuinely moving
I loved Dear Mrs Bird
the joyous debut of AJ Pearce
(A) moving and funny debut of friendship and kindness in the Blitz.
A sweet and charming read
Emmy
her best friend
Bunty
and Mrs Bird herself are wonderful characters. Rich
warm
funny....I loved them. [...]And I loved A.J. Pearce's writing. It's warm and humorous
and brilliantly engaging.
I just adored Dear Mrs Bird and think it should be available on prescription
it is such a tonic. It's so clever and wise but sweet and moving too. Just the ticket
Uplifting
funny and enormously moving.

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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