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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a delightful charming 1938 novel about woman on the brink of destitution whose life is transformed by serendipity. Miss Pettigrew (40) is sent on a last chance employment assignment by her agency after receiving complaints about her skill as a governess.
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a novel by Winifred Watson, first published in 1938 by Methuen & Co with illustrations by Mary Thomson. A US edition was published in 1939 by D. Appleton-Century Company. In 2008 the novel was adapted into a film of the same name.
Dec 31, 2008 · Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a charming story of a middle aged governess, down on her luck and looking for a teaching job, who accidentally stumbles on a situation in the glamourous life of Miss LaFosse.
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Dec 22, 2021 · Miss Pettigrew, a governess looking for work, is sent by mistake to the home of Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous nightclub singer involved with three different men and is invited to stay after offering Miss LaFosse common sense advice about her love life. "A Persephone classic"--T.p. verso.
Apr 1, 2014 · Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day. Kindle Edition. 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 ...
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Nov 2, 2000 · Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is now available as an audio book read by Academy Award–winning actress Frances McDormand, who stars in the film as the down-and-out governess Miss Pettigrew, who finds herself caught up in the life of Delysia LaFloss, a glamorous aspiring actress played by Amy Adams. Winifred Watson (1907–2002) grew up in ...
- Winifred Watson
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is about a down-on-her-luck, middle-aged governess who is sent by an employment agency to the wrong address: instead of a household of unruly children, she encounters a glamorous night-club singer named Miss LaFosse.
