Emmy Lake jumps at the chance of a job in journalism – except it turns out to be on Woman’s Friend magazine, typing up letters for Henrietta Bird’s old-fashioned agony aunt page You could win a copy ...

Picador has won a debut novel by A J Pearce, Dear Mrs Bird, after a "passionately-fought" seven-publisher auction. Francesca Main acquired UK and Commonwealth rights to Dear Mrs Bird in a "major" ...

Picador's superlead Dear Mrs Bird by A J Pearce has been optioned for immediate television development by 42. The book, publishing on 5th April, was originally won by Picador in a seven-way auction.

In her witty, deceptively simple debut, AJ Pearce conjures up a world of courage and perseverance that seems sadly alien to modern life in the West. Set during the London Blitz of the second World War ...

It’s 1940 and 22-year-old Emmeline Lake is an aspiring journalist who longs to contribute to the war effort. “If there was anything I wanted most in the world (other of course than for the war to end ...