Surviving day-to-day life in London during the Blitz is no small feat, but plucky Emmy Lake considers it practice for the day she becomes a war correspondent. When she lands a job at a local newspaper, she's excited to finally begin her career—until she learns she'll just be sorting letters for Mrs. Bird, a stuffy ladies' advice columnist. Crushed, but determined to make the best of it, Emmy secretly begins responding to the letters Mrs. Bird deems "unacceptable" (which is most of them). The consequences are…unexpected. By turns funny and heartbreaking, this wartime novel sparkles thanks in no small part to its cheerfully indomitable heroine.