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 ...

As we all know from watching PBS, London during the Blitz was populated with feisty, plucky, stiff-upper-lip types — primarily women — who carried on stoically with little regard for the dogfights ...