Dear Mrs Bird
Registered by kaila-ann of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina USA on 12/7/2019
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
2 journalers for this copy...
Bought on ThriftBooks.
The wishlist-tag book arrived safely today - in the middle of a light snowstorm. Thanks much!
Later: This was a fun and enjoyable read, if perhaps a bit fluffier in places than I'd expected. Not that it ignores the trauma of life in London during the Blitz - on the contrary, there are some harrowing scenes of the aftermath of a bombing, and it has ongoing effects on the lives of the main characters. But the tone remains relatively lighthearted, and our naive heroine's actions tend to turn out for the best, if that's not always apparent up front!
Young Emmy has hopes of becoming a war correspondent, and is delighted to find a job opening at a prestigious London publishing house - but once she's got the job she learns she's an assistant to an "agony aunt" advice column, not exactly the stepping stone to reporting that she'd hoped for. She gets intrigued by some of the letters, though, and is increasingly annoyed that the resident advice-giver is so very strict about NOT answering letters on anything to do with sex, reproduction, or relationships (beyond wedding etiquette). Emmy decides to answer some of the letters herself, having had some experience through seeing a friend's suffering under similar circumstances. This goes unnoticed at first, but when Emmy gets a letter with no return address and decides to sneak her own answer into the newspaper (the resident advice-giver never bothers to read her own columns once published), she puts her job at risk...
Meanwhile she's making friends at work, getting over being ditched by her own boyfriend, and is looking forward to the wedding of her best friend Bunty and her wonderful fire-warden fiance. But her urge to give advice leads her to cause a rupture in her most important friendship; can she mend it before it's too late?
Often very amusing but with lots of emotion at its heart, this was a very enjoyable book.
[Side note: There's a similar advice-column subplot in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Away With the Fairies, based on Kerry Greenwood's novel.]
Later: This was a fun and enjoyable read, if perhaps a bit fluffier in places than I'd expected. Not that it ignores the trauma of life in London during the Blitz - on the contrary, there are some harrowing scenes of the aftermath of a bombing, and it has ongoing effects on the lives of the main characters. But the tone remains relatively lighthearted, and our naive heroine's actions tend to turn out for the best, if that's not always apparent up front!
Young Emmy has hopes of becoming a war correspondent, and is delighted to find a job opening at a prestigious London publishing house - but once she's got the job she learns she's an assistant to an "agony aunt" advice column, not exactly the stepping stone to reporting that she'd hoped for. She gets intrigued by some of the letters, though, and is increasingly annoyed that the resident advice-giver is so very strict about NOT answering letters on anything to do with sex, reproduction, or relationships (beyond wedding etiquette). Emmy decides to answer some of the letters herself, having had some experience through seeing a friend's suffering under similar circumstances. This goes unnoticed at first, but when Emmy gets a letter with no return address and decides to sneak her own answer into the newspaper (the resident advice-giver never bothers to read her own columns once published), she puts her job at risk...
Meanwhile she's making friends at work, getting over being ditched by her own boyfriend, and is looking forward to the wedding of her best friend Bunty and her wonderful fire-warden fiance. But her urge to give advice leads her to cause a rupture in her most important friendship; can she mend it before it's too late?
Often very amusing but with lots of emotion at its heart, this was a very enjoyable book.
[Side note: There's a similar advice-column subplot in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Away With the Fairies, based on Kerry Greenwood's novel.]
Journal Entry 3 by 
GoryDetails
at Little Free Library, Washington St. and Taylor Rd. in Dover, New Hampshire USA on Friday, February 28, 2020
GoryDetails at Little Free Library, Washington St. and Taylor Rd. in Dover, New Hampshire USA on Friday, February 28, 2020
Released 4 yrs ago (2/28/2020 UTC) at Little Free Library, Washington St. and Taylor Rd. in Dover, New Hampshire USA
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I left this book in the Little Free Library (one that I hadn't known about until I spotted it while driving by en route to a different one) on this bright but VERY windy day; hope someone enjoys it! [See other recent releases in NH here.]
*** Released for the 2020 Great Backyard Bird Count challenge; GBBC info here. ***
*** Released for the 2020 Head Shoulders Knees Toes challenge, for the embedded "ear" in the title. ***
*** Released for the 2020 Keep Them Moving challenge. ***
