AJ Pearce’s Dear Mrs Bird was one of my favourite reads of 2019. The tone is wonderfully WW2-era British jolly hockey sticks, it takes a fun look behind the scenes of an agony aunt page at a fictional women’s magazine before shifting delicately into a darker, sadder reality of war.

Hello. It is the 75th anniversary of VE Day today, the day marking the allied victory of WWII. It feels weird to be celebrating such a momentous day in British history while we’re all stuck indoors.