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Title	:	Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Author	:	Winifred Watson
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 234 pages
Published	:	2000 by Persephone Books (first published 1938)
Categories	:	Fiction. Classics. Historical. Historical Fiction. Humor

Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day Paperback | Pages: 234 pages

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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.

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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 Reviews

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Aside from some outdated views in certain places in this book, it was delightful. Very enjoyable.

Down-on-her-luck 40 year old governess Miss Guinevere Pettigrew needs to get a teaching job or shell be evicted. But little does she know when she stumbles into the glamorous life of socialite Miss Delysia LaFosse, her fortunes are about to change drastically - today, for the first time in her bleak existence, Miss Pettigrew will LIVE! Winifred Watsons Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day is the embodiment of the word pleasant. Its just such a nice little novel full of light, soapy romance and

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 hesitated over giving this book five stars. "It's fluff," I told myself. "This is not a Literary Masterpiece. It's a fun novel. It's frivolous. How can I give something so frivolous five stars?" I summed up the plot in my head to see if some Serious, Important aspect of the novel had slipped past my notice. It hadn't. The book was exactly as promised (in some review, somewhere, I'll find it later): a champagne comedy. Sweet, bubbly, light.It was then that I recalled a similar description had

4 Stars for the book, 5th star for the narrator, Frances McDormand)A fun book written in 1938, that takes place in London and is the basis of the 2008 film with Frances McDormand as Miss Pettigrew and Amy Adams as the nightclub singer, Delysia Lafosse. LaFosse was an American in the film. Pettigrew, a 40 yr old spinster who until now lived a sheltered and uneventful life. She is an out of work governess who is sent to Delysia's for a job. Pettigrew is caught in the whirlwind of the glamorous,

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

"She prayed desperately for a knock on the door. A knock on Miss LaFosse's door heralded adventure. It was not like an ordinary house, when the knocker would be the butcher, or baker or candlestick-maker. A knock on Miss LaFosse's door would mean excitement, drama, a new crisis to be dealt with."Miss PettigrewDear, Miss Pettigrew! A woman after my own heart! Practically on the steps of the workhouse, Miss Pettigrew can't imagine that her last ditch effort to secure a post as a governess will