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Major Ernest Pettigrew, a 68-year-old widower, had me at first paragraph, when he answered the doorbell without thinking, wearing his dead wife's clematis-covered housecoat. One cannot help but fall in love with his old-fashioned, ruminative character, and root for him as he starts making certain adjustments in his wardrobe and his life. "He had planned on a tweed jacket, wool slacks, and a splash of celebratory after-shave. However, the tweed gave off a faint odor when moist. He didn't want to fill Mrs. Ali's small car with a smell like a wet sheep dipped in bay rum."
Helen Simonson's debut novel, set in a picturesque English village, depicts one of the most unusual contemporary love stories, between a proper English gentleman and a beautiful Pakistani shopkeeper. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand will delight you with its humor, elegance and romance. How a gentle Major Pettigrew ends up fighting for his love, including a Thermos filled with hot tea and an antique walnut Churchill's shotgun, is the most charming personal transformation in recent fiction. --Aggie Z. |
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