{"id":3129,"date":"2017-05-16T20:49:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T15:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fableandi.com\/?p=3129"},"modified":"2020-03-10T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T06:51:00","slug":"miss-pettigrew-lives-for-a-day-by-winifred-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebooksatchel.com\/miss-pettigrew-lives-for-a-day-by-winifred-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Miss. Pettigrew Lives for a Day by Winifred Watson \u2013 A Modern Fairy tale for Guaranteed Chuckles"},"content":{"rendered":"
A forty year old lady who struggles to make ends meet has an extraordinary day in the world of glitz and glam.Miss. Pettigrew Lives for a Day<\/em> is a delightful book that you will leave you laughing out loud.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Set in London in the 1930s, Watson\u2019s book captures a day in the life of Miss Guinevere Pettigrew. As the novel opens, Miss Pettigrew is in urgent need of a new job as a governess or a nanny, both of which she is not very good at. If she doesn\u2019t secure a new position that day, she might be turned out of her house by the landlady. In a mix-up over the details at the employment agency, she ends up in the home of Miss Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous nightclub singer in need of a new maid. So Miss. Pettigrew walks in thinking she is employed as a nanny while Miss. LaFosse is delighted with her new maid who seems to fix everything unruly in her life.<\/p>\n I loved the character sketches in the book. Miss. Pettigrew is a forty year old, uninteresting, clumsy lady desperately in need of money. She is uptight about her morals and might seem as one who would be appalled by a lifestyle as that of Delysia. Miss. LaFosse is flighty, flirtatious, \u00a0has three beaus, one for the money, one for launching her career and one for love, and has no qualms about spending her money (kindly provided by one of her men of course). Miss. Pettigrew seems to magically help Miss. LaFosse out of all her problems, be it dealing with her men or her insecurities, and in turn Miss. LaFosse is thrilled and showers her with appreciation, something Miss. Pettigrew has never experienced in her life. The women change each other over the course of the day and form a strong friendship that they would not have forged had they not met under the same circumstances. The book has wonderful side characters such as the scheming (unfaithful?) girlfriend, the rich businessman and so on which leave you with not one dull moment<\/p>\nReview<\/h3>\n