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#BookReview Dear Miss Lake by A. J. Pearce (out 3rd of July)

This is the fourth and last instalment of Dear Mrs. Bird series, by A. J. Pearce, that is set during the World War II in the UK.

I have been reading the series since the first book, when Emily wants to be a war correspondent and finds herself working for a “problems/advice column” in a women’s magazine. It was a delight to be with these beloved characters again.

In this book (as in the others), you will cry, and you will laugh, but for me the most important is that it will also seed hope in your heart. I loved how the characters get together to solve problems, in an horrible circumstance like a war, and really help each other. Not only because that’s how literally you solve problems, but looking at our times that’s something we also need to re-learn urgently.

Pearce consulted women’s magazines from that era and interviewed women that still remembered the war time and that research work shows. Both in language and writing style, but also in the characterisation of the personages: you will be easily attached to them. I was very impressed by a scene where soldiers ask the reporter to print their name in the magazine, so their families knew they were alive: in the 60s/70s my country sent soldiers to a war and we have tv recordings of soldiers forming a queue to the camera to say Merry Christmas so their families back home could see them. So journalists and journalism also had this function.

I also found very insightful how the government was interest and worried about what woman magazines would publish and how our characters reacted and deal with those pressures.

I think you can read this book as a standalone, but I really recommend to get the four volumes and start from the beginning. I know, and understand, many readers are sad this is the last book, but I’m hoping Pearce has more stories to tell and more characters for us to attach to.

(I was given an ARC from NetGalley).

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#BookReview Dear Miss Lake by A. J. Pearce (out 3rd of July)

This is the fourth and last instalment of Dear Mrs. Bird series, by A. J. Pearce, that is set during the World War II in the UK.

I have been reading the series since the first book, when Emily wants to be a war correspondent and finds herself working for a “problems/advice column” in a women’s magazine. It was a delight to be with these beloved characters again.

In this book (as in the others), you will cry, and you will laugh, but for me the most important is that it will also seed hope in your heart. I loved how the characters get together to solve problems, in an horrible circumstance like a war, and really help each other. Not only because that’s how literally you solve problems, but looking at our times that’s something we also need to re-learn urgently.

Pearce consulted women’s magazines from that era and interviewed women that still remembered the war time and that research work shows. Both in language and writing style, but also in the characterisation of the personages: you will be easily attached to them. I was very impressed by a scene where soldiers ask the reporter to print their name in the magazine, so their families knew they were alive: in the 60s/70s my country sent soldiers to a war and we have tv recordings of soldiers forming a queue to the camera to say Merry Christmas so their families back home could see them. So journalists and journalism also had this function.

I also found very insightful how the government was interest and worried about what woman magazines would publish and how our characters reacted and deal with those pressures.

I think you can read this book as a standalone, but I really recommend to get the four volumes and start from the beginning. I know, and understand, many readers are sad this is the last book, but I’m hoping Pearce has more stories to tell and more characters for us to attach to.

(I was given an ARC from NetGalley).

#readings #books #BookLook #BookReview #BookReviews #fiction #AJPearce #WWII #historicalFiction

#BookReview Dear Miss Lake by A. J. Pearce (out 3rd of July)

This is the fourth and last instalment of Dear Mrs. Bird series, by A. J. Pearce, that is set during the World War II in the UK.

I have been reading the series since the first book, when Emily wants to be a war correspondent and finds herself working for a “problems/advice column” in a women’s magazine. It was a delight to be with these beloved characters again.

In this book (as in the others), you will cry, and you will laugh, but for me the most important is that it will also seed hope in your heart. I loved how the characters get together to solve problems, in an horrible circumstance like a war, and really help each other. Not only because that’s how literally you solve problems, but looking at our times that’s something we also need to re-learn urgently.

Pearce consulted women’s magazines from that era and interviewed women that still remembered the war time and that research work shows. Both in language and writing style, but also in the characterisation of the personages: you will be easily attached to them. I was very impressed by a scene where soldiers ask the reporter to print their name in the magazine, so their families knew they were alive: in the 60s/70s my country sent soldiers to a war and we have tv recordings of soldiers forming a queue to the camera to say Merry Christmas so their families back home could see them. So journalists and journalism also had this function.

I also found very insightful how the government was interest and worried about what woman magazines would publish and how our characters reacted and deal with those pressures.

I think you can read this book as a standalone, but I really recommend to get the four volumes and start from the beginning. I know, and understand, many readers are sad this is the last book, but I’m hoping Pearce has more stories to tell and more characters for us to attach to.

(I was given an ARC from NetGalley).

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#BookReview Dear Miss Lake by A. J. Pearce (out 3rd of July)

This is the fourth and last instalment of Dear Mrs. Bird series, by A. J. Pearce, that is set during the World War II in the UK.

I have been reading the series since the first book, when Emily wants to be a war correspondent and finds herself working for a “problems/advice column” in a women’s magazine. It was a delight to be with these beloved characters again.

In this book (as in the others), you will cry, and you will laugh, but for me the most important is that it will also seed hope in your heart. I loved how the characters get together to solve problems, in an horrible circumstance like a war, and really help each other. Not only because that’s how literally you solve problems, but looking at our times that’s something we also need to re-learn urgently.

Pearce consulted women’s magazines from that era and interviewed women that still remembered the war time and that research work shows. Both in language and writing style, but also in the characterisation of the personages: you will be easily attached to them. I was very impressed by a scene where soldiers ask the reporter to print their name in the magazine, so their families knew they were alive: in the 60s/70s my country sent soldiers to a war and we have tv recordings of soldiers forming a queue to the camera to say Merry Christmas so their families back home could see them. So journalists and journalism also had this function.

I also found very insightful how the government was interest and worried about what woman magazines would publish and how our characters reacted and deal with those pressures.

I think you can read this book as a standalone, but I really recommend to get the four volumes and start from the beginning. I know, and understand, many readers are sad this is the last book, but I’m hoping Pearce has more stories to tell and more characters for us to attach to.

(I was given an ARC from NetGalley).

#readings #books #BookLook #BookReview #BookReviews #fiction #AJPearce #WWII #historicalFiction