Dear Miss Lake
A Novel
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5.0 • 8 Ratings
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Publisher Description
“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
Plucky wartime advice columnist Emmy Lake discovers that sometimes it takes losing everything to find what we need most.
London, July 1944. After nearly five years of war, the readers of Woman’s Friendmagazine are relying on the support of Emmy Lake and her team more than ever. With the city under attack, the magazine staff decamps to the countryside for the summer. Determined to help the women of Britain carry on, Emmy and friends are hard at work finding new ways to inspire resilience.
With her army officer husband Charles posted close to home, and best friend Bunty by her side, Emmy happily throws herself into rural life, juggling children, magazine assignments, and plans for a very important wedding. And then a call comes that means she may finally fulfill her long-held dream of becoming a war correspondent.
But when disaster strikes, Emmy needs her friends, her community, and her readers more than ever. Filled with courage and compassion, a lovable cast of characters, and winning wartime details, Dear Miss Lake is an enormously uplifting testament to the power of friendship and hope.
Customer Reviews
Great final book in the series!
I just finished reading the ARC from Netgalley of AJ Pearce’s “Dear Miss Lake”, which is the 4th and final book of her Emmy Lake Chronicles series. Although you can read this as a standalone, it’s so much better and satisfying if you have read the other 3 books in order beforehand. The setting is England during the final year of WWII. Emmy Lake works for the advice column of a women’s magazine that helps women to cope with the issues and problems they face during the war. As with the preceding books, this book shows the various situations encountered on the home front and how people coped and banded together as the months dragged on. This is a heartwarming book whose characters are genuinely good people. I feel the storylines are realistic but leave you feeling optimistic about what can be accomplished when people support one another in trying times. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and feel that this entire series is a gem.