Dear Mrs. Bird (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, #1) in Pick-a-Shelf

Jan 21, 2019 Kathy rated it really liked it

Shelves: debut-author, epistolary, great-titles, favorite-covers, england, historical-fiction, highly-recommend, world-war-2

The word that most readers and reviewers use to describe Dear Mrs. Bird is charming, and it is absolutely that. Set during WWII, Dec. 1940 to May 1941, it is an excellent depiction of being a young adult in the worn-torn city of London. Emmeline Lake and her best friend since a child Bunty take readers through the days and nights, with the German air raids pounding London at night, and how they coped with being in their early twenties and working and volunteering on the Auxiliary Fire Service an ...more

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Oct 09, 2018 Starbubbles rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: historical-fiction, brit-lit, audio-book, wwii

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Jan 02, 2022 Catsalive rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 2022, 2019

I found Emmy's soul-searching a bit irritating at times, but otherwise a very sweet and entertaining story. Loved the detail of wartime London. It's very much in the spirit of that time to consider Hitler a fool and the nightly air-raids inconvenient.
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Feb 26, 2019 Marie (UK) rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: netgalley, 2019-reading-challenge

This is a novel about wartime London and almost the art of "getting on" with things despite the disruption that bombing causes. For me it took a really long time to actually move the storyline on and had a little too much of the "jolly hockey sticks" character or bravado. However there were parts that really got to me emotionally and I wanted things to turn out well for the characters. There were some very well written individual scenes and for a debut novel it has a lot going for it. I would no ...more

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Jul 18, 2019 LynnB rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: family-or-relationships, fiction, historical-fiction, war, 2019-reads, england

A nice little novel about friendship set in WWII London during the German bombings. The story has both humor and suffering. A good read, 3.5 stars.

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Feb 23, 2021 Rachel N. rated it liked it

Shelves: england, london, world-war-ii, writer, war, friendship, historical-fiction, debut, read-in-2021, advice-column

Emmy Lake lives with her best friend Bunty in London during World War II. Emmy wants to become a war correspondent but through a mix up on Emmy's part she ends up working for the advice columnist for Woman's friend magazine. The advice columnist, Mrs. Bird, refuses to deal with any unpleasant subjects so Emmy begins answering the letters and mailing back replies. I liked the characters, even the rather obnoxious Mrs. Bird. The authors use of Random Capitalization became Very Annoying. The story ...more

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