DEAR MISS LAKE

Uplifting, moving and full of heart, Dear Miss Lake returns us to wartime London, where in the fourth and final novel of the series, AJ Pearce’s much-loved heroine, Emmy Lake, will face her greatest challenge yet.

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MRS PORTER CALLING

Funny, heartbreaking, and filled with warmth and charm. The new story of friendship, love and courage when all seems lost from AJ Pearce, The Sunday Times bestselling author of Dear Mrs Bird and Yours Cheerfully.

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YOURS CHEERFULLY

The charming and hilarious tonic we’ve all been waiting for. The Times bestseller, Yours Cheerfully, is the uplifting sequel to Dear Mrs Bird and the second novel in the series The Emmy Lake Chronicles.

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DEAR MRS BIRD

The Sunday Times Bestseller and Richard & Judy Book Club Pick. Irresistibly funny and moving, Dear Mrs Bird is a love letter to the enduring power of friendship, the kindness of strangers and the courage of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

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AJ Pearce is the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Dear Mrs Bird. She was born in Hampshire, UK, and studied at the University of Sussex and Northwestern University in the USA

Dear Mrs Bird (her debut novel) was short-listed for the 2019 British Book Awards Debut of the Year and has been translated into fifteen languages.  It was followed by three more novels in the much loved series The Wartime Chronicles (known as The Emmy Lake Chronicles in the USA). If you want to read them in order they are Yours Cheerfully (2021), Mrs Porter Calling (2023) and Dear Miss Lake(2025).

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