Dear Mrs. Bird - A Lovely Read for Fall
I first heard of this book from Cirtnecce at Mockingbirds, Looking Glasses & Prejudices... She wrote so highly of Dear Mrs. Bird that I couldn't wait to get my hands on a library copy. Three months later, it finally arrived! It's London in the middle of the Blitz, and twenty-something Miss Emmy Lake wants desperately to leave her dull desk job and become a War Correspondent. Opportunities are scarce, especially for young women, so when she spies a job opening at The Evening Chronicle , she takes it, no questions asked. Unfortunately, it turns out Emmy has agreed to become a typist for a ladies' magazine: Woman's Friend . The eminent yet stringent editor, Mrs. Henrietta Bird, runs an advice column for women. To her disappointment, Emmy has not been hired to get the scoop on the latest War developments - in fact, her job is merely to type up Mrs. Bird's responses to readers' questions, on topics ranging from the absurd to the tragic. What seems ...