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Miss Pettigrew lives for a day / by Winifred Watson ; with a new preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Persephone classicsPublisher: London : Persephone Books, 2017Copyright date: 1938Description: xii, 233 pages : illustrations ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781906462024
  • 190646202X
Subject(s): Summary: "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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library Fiction Watson, Winifred Available 33111009240165
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A governess is sent by an employment afency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamourous night-club singer, Miss LaFosse.

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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