She is known for her Sunday Times Bestselling historical fiction series The Emmy Lake Chronicles, beginning with Dear Mrs Bird in 2018.
She worked in entertainment marketing and publishing for an engineering magazine before going into writing, a hobby she enjoyed as a child and rediscovered in 2005.
She began collecting wartime magazines to form the premise of her World War II London-set novel.
[4] Following a bidding auction, Pearce landed a two-book publishing deal with Picador in 2016 with potential for more.
[9] In an interview with My Weekly, Pearce discussed her plans for the series to follow the lead character Emmy through the war.