Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day - Winifred Watson
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"Miss Pettigrew..." is about a governess sent by an employment agency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamorous night-club singer, Miss LaFosse. 'The sheer fun, the light-heartedness' in this wonderful 1938 book 'feels closer to a Fred Astaire film than anything else' comments the Preface-writer Henrietta Twycross-Martin, who found Miss Pettigrew for Persephone Books. The Guardian asked: 'Why has it taken more than half a century for this wonderful flight of humour to be rediscovered?' while the Daily Mail liked the book's message - 'that everyone, no matter how poor or prim or neglected, has a second chance to blossom in the world.' Maureen Lipman wrote in 'Books of the Year' in the Guardian: 'Perhaps the most pleasure has come from Persephone's enchanting reprints, particularly Miss Pettigrew, a fairy story set in 1930s London'; and she herself entertained R4 listeners with her five-part reading. And in The Shops India Knight called Miss Pettigrew 'the sweetest grown-up book in the world'. Preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin. źródło opisu: http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/miss-pettigrew-li...(?) źródło okładki: http://www.persephonebooks.co.uk/miss-pettigrew-li...»
| data wydania | 31 grudnia 2008 | ||
| kategoria | klasyka | ||
| liczba stron | 256 | ||
| słowa kluczowe | Henrietta Twycross-Martin | ||
| język | angielski | ||
| ISBN | 9781906462024 |
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