Yours Cheerfully (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, 2)

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Set against the backdrop of the Second World War, Yours Cheerfully is a story about women and their fight to be acknowledged and respected.

Yours Cheerfully begins just a few months after the end of Dear Mrs Bird where Emmy is now doing well at ‘Woman’s Friend’. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Unless explicitly stated that they are free, all books that I review have been purchased by me or borrowed from the library.

Pearce captures the spirit and hopefulness of those left at home during war, and readers will delight in this second chance to ride along with Emmy. I’d be honored and thrilled if you choose to enjoy and follow along (see subscribe or follow option), promote, and/or share my blog. Bird but that could be because I’ve become familiar with the characters, the setting, and the author. for me they are books in which most characters are women and the plot centers around women’s concerns and issues…. Things are looking up for Emmy Lake as she takes on the challenge of becoming a young wartime advice columnist.

But when she and Bunty meet a young mother who shows them the very real challenges that women war workers face, Emmy must confront a dilemma between doing her duty and standing by her friends. The Times bestseller, Yours Cheerfully, is the uplifting sequel to Dear Mrs Bird and the second novel in the series The Emmy Lake Chronicles.The publicity for this book says that it is just the tonic we’ve all been waiting for and it really is. From the author of the “jaunty, heartbreaking winner” ( People) and international bestseller Dear Mrs. Packed with plenty of feel-good and heart-warming moments, Yours Cheerfully is an uplifting story of courage and optimism during challenging times, something we can all relate to at the moment. Brimming with charm, wit, and poignancy, Yours Cheerfully is a wartime story of women's strength and friendship that touches deeply and shines with heart. AJ Pearce shines a light on the hardships that women factory workers faced during World War II, an echo to the plight of working mothers today.

In 1941, Britain had been at war for two years and London had just survived the Blitz—a brutal series of German air raids that dropped more than 12,000 metric tons of bombs from September 1940 to May 1941, killing nearly 30,000 civilians. I wrote Dear Mrs Bird as a hobby, and things do change if you’re lucky enough to then get a publishing contract.

As Emmy grapples with these questions, and with the turn of events in her personal life, she has to dig deep and find the strength to be true to her own beliefs but also be mindful of the chaos descending on the world around her.