Dear Miss Lake
$36.12
- Hardcover
336 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2025
Summary
London, July 1944. Journalist Emmy Lake’s career is soaring: Woman’s Friend magazine is a huge success, and she is finally realizing her dream of becoming a Lady War Correspondent. On the personal front, Emmy’s husband Charles has been posted closer to home, and they and their friends Bunty and Harold have escaped to the countryside for a few precious summer days. They all know how lucky they are.
But after nearly five years of war, the nation is struggling. The “Yours Cheerf…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781035000838 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1035000830 |
| Author: | AJ Pearce |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Imprint: | Picador |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 145mm x 225mm |
| Series: | The Wartime Chronicles |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Critics Review
It’s hard to accept that this is the end of the Emmy Lake series, but if there has to be an end, let it be this one: Dear Miss Lake. Sheer joy! – Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
The world AJ Pearce writes is cheerful and charming and full of wit, but she doesn’t avoid the hardship and the tragedy of wartime. Her books are ultimately uplifting, even if we have cried a lot while reading them! – Katie Fforde, author of From London With Love
A celebration of courage in all its forms … I bit my nails, cried and cheered as I read. These plucky, loving characters have become my true friends – Julie Mae Cohen, author of Bad Men
There’ll be love and laughter for everyone reading Dear Miss Lake, just you wait and see! AJ Pearce’s war time series is destined to become a cherished classic. Dear Miss Lake was the perfect, heart-warming ending. – Sally Page, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Keeper of Stories
Inspiring and spirited, charming, touching and funny. If ever there was a perfect book, this was it for me. Love, love, loved it beyond words – Milly Johnson, author of The Queen of Wishful Thinking
What a fabulous, funny, emotive and tugging-at-the-heart-strings book. I loved it – Jo Thomas, author of The Oyster Catcher
The characters in Dear Miss Lake captured my heart. They are such lovely people, with such a bright, courageous, compassionate outlook on life - it’s the reading equivalent of curling up with a mug of tea and a friend to chat to – Tracy Rees, author of Amy Snow
Good hearted, touching, funny and emotional, it’s the perfect escape and really should be prescribed as a national tonic – Jill Mansell, author of An Almost Perfect Summer
A wonderful, warm and engaging story of wartime life – Margaret Dickinson, author of Plough the Furrow
AJ Pearce
AJ Pearce grew up in Hampshire, England. Her debut novel, Dear Mrs Bird, was a Sunday Times and international bestseller and was shortlisted for the British Book Awards Debut of the Year and the Historical Writers’ Association Debut Crown for best historical debut. Dear Miss Lake is the fourth novel in The Wartime Chronicles.
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