Top subscription boxes – right to your door, See all details for Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. “No doubt,” said Miss Pettigrew. Any naughtiness that Miss Pettigrew encounters is also always nice. Unfortunately, there are a few instances of racial slurs, which are so offputting but I find in all of these older books casual racism seems to be the norm. It isn’t really a book about bad behaviour; it’s about finding goodness.
Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a delightful book that you will leave you laughing out loud. If you liked the movie version with Frances McDormand, you'll love the book. There's a problem loading this menu right now.
Yes, the tale is improbable and somewhat dated, but Miss Pettigrew and the supporting cast are a delight. “What interests me,” said Miss Pettigrew,” is the staying power.”. How in the world have I gone my entire life without reading this book? Illustration: Persephone Books It was so much fun that Winifred Watson’s … Perhaps her original readers were equally oblivious, although I’m hoping that they laughed as much as me at this passage. It's a bit more shocking in places (the movie overlooked the cocaine and the illegitimate children,) a bit less in others (Edythe, for example, is still morally on the gray side, but she's not an antagonist,) and there's a lot more detail into the minds and feelings of the characters. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. There has, in other words, been a lot of fun.
Miss LaFosse is not a “lady” and does not have much of the Christian “virtue” her father demanded – but she is generous, warm and affectionate. It also analyzes reviews to verify trustworthiness.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. It would be dishonest to not note that there are instances of racism in the book, which might not have felt unusual in 1938, but are nonetheless abhorrent. Watson knew she was on to something special, almost as soon as she wrote it, telling the Times: “I can remember to this day looking up and saying to the publisher, ‘You’re wrong.’ I really cared about it and I knew it would be a winner.” And she was right.
All the more impressive that she worried her publishers so. I'm sure from the title no one will be surprised that this is the basis for the movie "Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day." Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2013. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Just after Miss Pettigrew’s employment agency makes the error that sets the plot in motion, sending her to Miss LaFosse instead of a family seeking a governess, we see our hero out on the street: “Miss Pettigrew joined the throng, a middle-aged, rather angular lady, of medium height, thin through lack of good food, with a timid, defeated expression and terror quite discernible in her eyes, if anyone cared to look. When Miss Pettigrew literally and metaphorically lets her hair down, steps out of her dowdy and threadbare governess clothes and starts hitting the sherry, she leaves behind a life that has been cruel, cold and pinched.
Well, no idea why this has been unnoticed and unloved - the book is charming and entertaining as well. And of course, the book is light years better than the movie (and now that I've read it, I'm amazed that anyone thought Frances McDormand was a good choice to play Miss Pettigrew). Far more often it’s the warmth and humanity of the book and its characters that resonate. And being written before England entered WWII puts an interesting perspective on life during this time. I loved it and plan to buy more copies to give as gifts, especially to female friends. I haven’t the faintest idea what governesses really do.
Reviewed in the United States on November 10, 2016. Fortunately, these moments are few and fleeting.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson; Fiction, 256 pages.
The book's ending is a perfect conclusion to Miss Pettigrew's day, and more what I expected it to be, rather than the contrived ending the moviemakers came up with. I'll be recommending this to everyone in the future. It's a fizzy champagne cocktail for your mind and spirit. Winifred Watson. Another totally believable tale that it so uplifting, I know this is going to be a book I read over and over. It is an hour-by-hour account of Miss Pettigrew's wonderful day, and I didn't want it to end any more than she did.
Review. I also loved the preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin that tells a little bit more about the author of this book, Winifred Watson, and her writing career.
You can still see all customer reviews for the product. But there was no personal friend or relation in the whole world who knew or cared whether Miss Pettigrew was alive or dead.”. I had never heard of this book before someone recommended the movie version to me. This story takes place in a different time and setting than I usually read, but I found it rather refreshing, especially since this was written as a contemporary piece instead of the usual historical fiction I see. I’ve never been to a nightclub and I certainly didn’t know anyone who took cocaine.”. Premise/plot: Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is down on her luck. This innuendo is made all the more delicious because the lovely Miss Pettigrew is almost certainly unaware of what’s being implied. A must read!
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