Dear Mrs. Bird

Dear Mrs. Bird takes place during the London Blitz. Emmy is a young woman who jumps at the opportunity to work at a newspaper, and accepts a job there before she realizes she is simply going to be typing up the questions and responses for an advice column. Mrs. Bird, the columnist, Emmy soon learns, has a long list of issues she refuses to address in the column, and Emmy finds herself longing to help those who are struggling with these difficult issues.

I figured out exactly where this story was going from the start, and usually that puts me off a story. But this story had such wonderful characters and so much humor that I ended up loving it anyway.