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A review by librarylad
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson
3.0
2.5 stars. Here's a conundrum: how many stars to deduct from a sparkling, frothy, life-affirming book for its underlying core of undisguised racism? Do you add a star back, perhaps, with a grudging acceptance that the author came from a time when a little bit of jolly English racism wasn't anything to bother about? Oops, but now there's a helping of glorified male violence and machismo sprinkled into the mix. What to do!?
To my great surprise, by the end of the book, I had begun to care quite deeply about the fate of Miss Pettigrew, who stumbles into high society and finds an acceptance there she'd never allowed for herself. A shame she hates those foreigners so damn much, though.
To my great surprise, by the end of the book, I had begun to care quite deeply about the fate of Miss Pettigrew, who stumbles into high society and finds an acceptance there she'd never allowed for herself. A shame she hates those foreigners so damn much, though.