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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (Persephone Classics)
by Winifred Watson

Published: 2008-12-31
Paperback : 256 pages
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Miss Pettigrew is about a governess sent by an employment agency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamorous night-club singer, Miss LaFosse. 'The sheer fun, the light-heartedness' in this wonderful 1938 book 'feels closer to a Fred Astaire film than anything else' comments the ...
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Miss Pettigrew is about a governess sent by an employment agency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamorous night-club singer, Miss LaFosse. 'The sheer fun, the light-heartedness' in this wonderful 1938 book 'feels closer to a Fred Astaire film than anything else' comments the Preface-writer Henrietta Twycross-Martin, who found Miss Pettigrew for Persephone Books. The Guardian asked: 'Why has it taken more than half a century for this wonderful flight of humour to be rediscovered?' while the Daily Mail liked the book's message - 'that everyone, no matter how poor or prim or neglected, has a second chance to blossom in the world.' Maureen Lipman wrote in 'Books of the Year' in the Guardian: 'Perhaps the most pleasure has come from Persephone's enchanting reprints, particularly Miss Pettigrew, a fairy story set in 1930s London'

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by sonja h. (see profile) 05/05/19

 
  " ‘Cinderella for grown-ups’"by Mandi D. (see profile) 02/14/15

Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, who begins her day desperate for work and in pursuit of what she presumes will be just another demanding position as Nanny, very soon finds herself completely out o... (read more)

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