A pleasant, well-written, if sometimes heavy-handed, story of love and romance after 60. That sounds a bit milquetoast, but that's not what the book is; it may not have stirred my soul, but it was easy to pick up and hard to put down. Small village, small minds, race relations and a dying class...
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson Paperback, Large Print, 585 pages Published December 1st 2010 by Large Print Press (first published 2010) ISBN: 1594134448 (ISBN13: 9781594134449) I was not sure I would like this one; but once I started following Major Pettigrew's character in...
As an American it's easy to be offended by this book--much of the descriptions are not complimentary, and are, on the whole, stereotypical. Considering the author has lived in America for the past 20 years I find it hard to believe that she can't at least tolerate us. That being said, the point of ...
Major Pettigrew, sixty-eight and a widower, has just learned that his younger brother has died of a heart attack when Mrs. Ali, a Pakistani widow and shop owner, rings the doorbell because he has forgotten to leave the newspaper money for the paper boy. When he becomes rather faint, she holds him up...
This was a good book, a gentle literary fiction. The protagonist, Major Pettigrew, is a retired army major, living in a small English village, in the house built by his ancestors. Widowed several years ago, he lives quietly, in peace with his neighbors, until his younger brother dies in the beginnin...
*Sigh* If only there were more men like Major Pettigrew in the world. Honest and kind, brave and romantic, and with the type of morals that only Sir Galahad could live up to, the Major is one of nature's gentlemen. This story - about a love that transcends the barriers of race, class, and social con...
Silly me, I purchased this book because I thought it was "Miss Pettigrew Lives For A Day", a book I wanted to read ever since I watch the movie. The mistake cost me dearly (more than USD 25.00... books in my country are very expensive ) I am in the minority when it comes to this book. It has a lot...
Helen Simonson’s first novel came to me by way of Amazon recommendations, and maybe it’s time for me to at least think about revising my innate skepticism of its recommendation process. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand is an improbable love story peppered with quirky but wholly believable characters who...
This is one of those pleasantly sweet little books that could have been something really good, profound even, but instead is as delicately insubstantial as a soap bubble. Major Pettigrew is a widower living in a small English village of the type familiar to readers of Agatha Christie’s ‘Miss Marple’...
This is the best novel I’ve read this year and may be destined to make my top ten list. The well designed plot is pulled together with carefully crafted writing. I’m embarrassed to be so enthusiastic about it because it is actually a romance novel which is a genre I usually steer clear of. But thi...
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