Yours Cheerfully (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, 2)

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Emmy is thrilled to do her part, but then she is confronted with the very real challenges that women war workers face and takes a stand to support her new friends.

for me they are books in which most characters are women and the plot centers around women’s concerns and issues…. I haven’t read Dear Mrs Bird but I needn’t have worried as Yours Cheerfully provides a very rounded backstory, providing new readers with sufficient information to pick up where Dear Mrs Bird left Emmy Lake. A chance discovery of a 1939 women’s magazine became the inspiration for her series The Emmy Lake Chronicles, which includes Dear Mrs. As the Honourable Mrs Porter tries to charm her way around the rest of the team, Emmy realizes that she plans to destroy everything readers love about the magazine. It is described as ‘every bit as funny, heartwarming, and touching as AJ Pearce’s debut,Dear Mrs Bird….Unless explicitly stated that they are free, all books that I review have been purchased by me or borrowed from the library. Why do you think Emmy was surprised by the experiences, challenges, and circumstances of the women working at Chandlers? So I thought long and hard about not only the new story, but how Emmy, Bunty and the other characters would develop. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles is blossoming, while Emmy’s best friend Bunty, is still reeling from the very worst of the Blitz, but bravely looking to the future. Emmy reflects that in the letters to Yours Cheerfully the readers often “referred to something a friend of theirs had said.

Watch War Comes to London, City Bound, or London 1942, available from the British Council Film Archive at https://film.From the author ofSunday TimesBestseller,Dear Mrs Bird, comes a much hoped-for follow up,Yours Cheerfully. In an interview with My Weekly, Pearce discussed her plans for the series to follow the lead character Emmy through the war. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles is blossoming, while Emmy’s best friend Bunty, still reeling from the very worst of the Blitz, is bravely looking to the future. Yours Cheerfully is a testament to the strength of women and the importance of lifting each other up, even in the most challenging times. Emmy Lake works for Woman’s Friend magazine and, following the departure of its agony aunt columnist, Mrs Bird, Emmy gets an opportunity to take on more responsibility.

Jill Mansell, author of Promise Me [A] charming, comforting book, which never shies away from the horrors and the losses of the war. Emmy Lake is the much-loved agony aunt at Woman’s Friend magazine, relied upon by readers across the country as they face the challenges of life on the Home Front. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles is blossoming, while Emmys best friend Bunty, is still reeling from the very worst of the Blitz, but bravely looking to the future. One of the best days during lockdown was the one where I received a parcel from Pan Macmillan which contained a proof copy of Yours Cheerfully by A J Pearce.Her relationship with her boyfriend, Charles, is blossoming, while her best friend Bunty, still reeling from a terrible loss in the Blitz, is trying to move forward.