"Dear Mrs. Bird" by A.J. Pearce

"Dear Mrs. Bird" by: A.J. Pearce; Scribner (281 pages, $26) ___ As we all know from watching PBS, London during the Blitz was populated with feisty, plucky, stiff-upper-lip types - primarily women - who carried on stoically with little regard for the dogfights taking place above their heads or the bombs exploding at their feet. Emmeline Lake was right there with them. Emmy, the narrator of ...