"An utter delight of a read as we step back in time to the extraordinary efforts on the home front from the offices of magazine Woman’s Friend"
The third book in the delightful Emmy Lake Chronicles, Mrs Porter Calling is an absolute gem.
With the whole gamut of human emotion on display, of humour, joy, friendship, love, grief and despair, it has such a classic feel that you are taken right back to London in 1943. You can’t help but fall into the pages, into the time with AJ Pearce’s descriptive language as you laugh and cry with her story.
Emmy Lake is the agony aunt at successful magazine Woman’s Friend, doing a grand job of supporting the war effort and being there for their readers in need. The team that Editor Guy Collins has built is a family however new owner the Honourable Mrs Cressida Porter has some ideas of her own and in true Devil Wears Prada style she tries to put her own stamp on the publication.
Every bit as heartwarming as Dear Mrs Bird and Yours Cheerfully this is another celebration of female friendship, a testament to the strength of women and the importance of supporting each other, even in the most challenging of times.
You shout for Emmy and her co-conspirators every step of the way on their journey and can’t fail to be moved by their courage and bravery and standing up for what they believe in. It’s a tonic. A joy. A step back in time. I devoured every page and call for more Emmy Lake, please.
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London, April 1943.
Emmy Lake, Woman’s Friend magazine’s popular young agony aunt, is doing all she can to help the readers as they face the challenges of life on the Home Front. With the postbags overflowing, Emmy puts her heart and soul into Doing Her Bit.
But when a glamorous new owner arrives, everything changes. As the Honourable Mrs Cressida Porter tries to charm her way around editor Guy Collins and the rest of the team, Emmy realises that Mrs Porter plans to destroy everything that Woman’s Friend stands for, and worst of all, force them to abandon the readers they’ve promised to stand up for.
With best friends Bunty and Thelma by her side, Emmy must work out how she can bring everyone together to fight back before it is too late. Buoyant, heartwarming and marvellously entertaining, Mrs Porter Calling is the third novel in AJ Pearce's series, The Emmy Lake Chronicles.
Mrs Porter Calling features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Humorous Fiction, Historical romance, Romance in uniform, Romance: wholesome, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Fiction, Romance / Relationship Stories, Fiction: narrative themes, Books of the Month, Recommendations
Mrs Porter Calling is available in Paperback, Hardback
Mrs Porter Calling was written by A. J. Pearce and published by Picador an imprint of Pan Macmillan
Mrs Porter Calling has 345 pages
Yes it is part of The Emmy Lake Chronicles series
£15.29
