Winifred Watson
Paperback | Pages: 234 pages Rating: 3.97 | 13199 Users | 1943 Reviews
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| Title | : | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day |
| Author | : | Winifred Watson |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 234 pages |
| Published | : | 2000 by Persephone Books (first published 1938) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Humor |
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Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever.Point Books Conducive To Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
| Original Title: | Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day |
| ISBN: | 190315510X (ISBN13: 9781903155103) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Guinevere Pettigrew, Delysia Langford |
| Setting: | London, England(United Kingdom) |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 13199 Users | 1943 ReviewsJudge Of Books Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
How do we know what latent possibilities of achievements we possess?It is always with a little trepidation that I re-visit a book I loved so much. Will it still be a favourite or will it have lost something in the intervening years? I remember enjoying this novel so much back in 2008 and kept fond memories.So, how was it? The answer - I devoured it in one evening, giggling a few times here and there. I'd forgotten the details and it was lovely to re-discover them. It is a light read thatAfter reading and enjoying many Persephone books, I was expecting a lot from their number one bestseller. However, I found myself a bit disappointed, and would have to say for me this is one of their weakest titles out of those I've read. At the start, a poor, timid, middle-aged governess is sent by an agency to a prospective new job. After she knocks on a stranger's door in London, a series of comic misunderstandings see her being welcomed in by a kindhearted nightclub singer, Miss LaFosse.
3.75 stars. In this 1938 book, the proper Miss Pettigrew, a 40 year old faded and timid governess who's fallen into desperate poverty, is sent to a new job by her employment agency. The address she's given is for a sexy nightclub singer, Miss LaFosse, who's in the throes of Man Troubles: she's juggling two lovers, with a third hopefully waiting in the wings. Miss Pettigrew is scandalized but intrigued. Miss LaFosse begs Miss Pettigrew to help her out: ... and somehow Miss Pettigrew rises to the
This is the story of Miss Pettigrew, a 40-year-old woman who until now has lived a very innocent, troublefree and rather boring life. However, as the title of this novel indicates, we get to follow Miss Pettigrew on a special day when she encounters enough adventures to last her for a lifetime. These adventures change her, and while we read about her day we also learn about her as a person: both who she was before and who she's becoming now. A lot of Miss Pettigrew's adventures were very
This sweet little cute little naughty little novel from 1938, with its nudity, its cocaine and its multiple sexual partners (all before page 20) unfortunately throws me into the old quandary which goes what if you're in the middle of a grand evening with some of your best pals and you're as happy as Larry, whoever he was, having a great time, and then one of them out of the blue makes a racist remark?What do you do? Stop the party? Denounce your friend? Turn a lovely evening into a memorable
I bought this book after having seen the movie and, as is so often the case, the book is much, much better than the film. While I enjoyed the movie very much, I loved this book and flew through it. Miss Pettigrew has been repressed and oppressed and one day, after meeting Delysia LaFosse, throws her convictions to the wind and decides to enjoy herself. She has the best time of her life, makes tons of new friends, becomes a sort of "fixer" for Delysia and her degenerate crowd, earns the
This was a fun book to read but I found myself slightly frustrated with the main theme of the book, especially with reading Emer OTooles Girls will be Girls alongside this. I think this quote from the book sums it up; Every female was linked possessively by some male.
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