Miss Pettigrew lives for a day /
Watson, Winifred, 1906-2002,
Miss Pettigrew lives for a day / by Winifred Watson ; with a new preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin. - xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. - Persephone classics . - Persephone classics. .
Originally published: London: Methuen, 1938.
"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."--fantasticfiction.com.
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Governesses--Fiction.
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
Singers--Fiction.
Social secretaries--Fiction.
Women entertainers--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.
Miss Pettigrew lives for a day / by Winifred Watson ; with a new preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin. - xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. - Persephone classics . - Persephone classics. .
Originally published: London: Methuen, 1938.
"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."--fantasticfiction.com.
9781906462024 190646202X
GBA816165 bnb
014514494 Uk
Governesses--Fiction.
Middle-aged women--Fiction.
Singers--Fiction.
Social secretaries--Fiction.
Women entertainers--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Nineteen thirties--Fiction.
London (England)--Fiction.