Dear Mrs. Bird is such a beautiful, fun story. Very uplifting. Emmy and her friend Bunty are doing what they can during World War II. Emmy works part time as a typist and volunteers at the firehouse with her spare time and Bunty works at the War Office. They are both in their twenties and doing what I am not sure I’d have the strength for, keeping their heads up and being as positive as they can under the circumstances. Air raids are bombing London almost every night but these two ladies and many like them are doing what they can for the war effort at home. During all of this, Emmy who has a dream of being a war correspondent, takes a job at a small woman’s magazine thinking it was for a bigger paper. She ends up opening the letters of Mrs. Bird, the writer of the help column who has strong ideas about “acceptable” letters. Emmy ends up feeling sad for those who’s letters do not fall into Mrs. Bird’s strong opinions and writes to them herself. This book is so positive and happy and fun despite the setting and I love it. While reading it, I described Emmy as plucky and I think I stick by that. She has a strong can-do attitude and takes everything in stride. Fun light reading! Thank you to Simon and Schuster Canada and Netgalley for access to this book early. Dear Mrs. Bird is published on July 3/18.