Yours Cheerfully (The Emmy Lake Chronicles, 2)

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By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles is blossoming, while Emmy’s best friend Bunty, still reeling from the very worst of the Blitz, is bravely looking to the future. She worked in entertainment marketing and publishing for an engineering magazine before going into writing, a hobby she enjoyed as a child and rediscovered in 2005.

With big stakes and formidable opponents, this exciting saga is a fruitful exploration of the solidarity among women in times of grief, love, and hardship. Bird, Emmeline Lake continues her journalism career as an advice columnist for Woman’s Friend magazine.Following a bidding auction, Pearce landed a two-book publishing deal with Picador in 2016 with potential for more. They weren’t always complimentary, but invariably you knew that their friends were a central part of their world, especially with so many men now away” (220). With the problem page thriving and a team of fantastic women behind her, Emmy finally feels she is Doing Her Bit. The Times bestseller, Yours Cheerfully, is the uplifting sequel to Dear Mrs Bird and the second novel in the series The Emmy Lake Chronicles.

Books take us to places we’ve never been, they teach us about our world, and they help us to understand human experience. Thoughtful themes include women supporting women, women and the War effort, women’s working conditions and equal wages, friendship, influence of news media on current issues, making a difference, and wartime romance. 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 first book in the hugely popular Emmy Lake Chronicles series , Dear Mrs Bird was short-listed for the 2019 British Book Awards Debut of the Year and has been translated into fifteen languages. But when she and best friend Bunty meet a young woman who shows them the real challenges that women war workers face, Emmy must tackle a life-changing dilemma: should she carry out her duty or stand by her friends?

We notice Emmeline’s growth as a competent and confident columnist, observe as she’s challenged by the unfairness of women’s work conditions, and cheer for her actions and involvement. A chance discovery of a 1939 women’s magazine became the inspiration for her series The Emmy Lake Chronicles, which includes Dear Mrs. Her reputation hasn’t been the best in the past and now Emmy is ready to grab this second chance and become the journalist she always dreamt of being.And while the war rages on, Emmy is even firmer that she must do all she can to help on the Home Front. Lots of people talk about second books being a little like ‘the difficult second album’ for bands, and it is definitely a challenge. Yours Cheerfully begins just a few months after the end of Dear Mrs Bird where Emmy is now doing well at ‘Woman’s Friend’. Her relationship with boyfriend Charles is blossoming, while Emmy’s best friend Bunty, is still reeling from the very worst of the Blitz, but bravely looking to the future. org/blog/2018/8/7/women-babies-and-bombs-how-day-nurseries-contributed-to-working-womens-lives-during-wwii.