by Dorothy Gilman
Series: Mrs. Pollifax #1 Mrs. Pollifax is a widow in her sixties with grown children who has been feeling down in the doldrums and rather without purpose lately. So she decides to try to live out a childhood dream of becoming a spy by showing up at CIA headquarters and asking to be one. Through a ...
The question - what would you do if you had the time and freedom? Mrs. Pollifax's answer – be as spy. The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax by Dorothy Gilman is the completely improbable but completely fun tale of this elderly widow turned spy. Mrs. Pollifax is an endearing, charming character. Her ability t...
Mrs Emily Pollifax of New Brunswick, New Jersey is a widowed senior citizen with grown children. She feels she has outlived her usefulness and “loathes” her volunteer work. After a visit to her doctor, she is struck with an epiphany: she recalls that when she was growing up she had planned to become...
Whenever one comes across a spy thriller, one comes to expect a book stuffed with action, men fighting over secret messages, high ranking officials giving orders, and higher ranking officials being revealed as spies. And, if it is a modern day spy thriller, add to all the above a bevy of gadgets and...
The "unexpected" Mrs Polifax is the unlikely Mrs Polifax at least on first impressions. She's a white-haired sixty something, a widow from New Brunswick, New Jersey with grown children who are living lives apart from her. In the beginning of the book she's depressed, feeling useless. Her doctor asks...
I love the Mrs Pollifax books. They are charming right through. I love that the heroine of these books is an old lady...it's a nice change. It's a little bit Angela Lansbury, I suppose, but charming all the same. I think that Mrs Pollifax has a good bit of spice in her that perhaps Murder She Wrote ...
An easy, humorous and exciting read - great if you're stuck inside on a rainy day (of which we've recently had numerous here in Lancashire!).Mrs Pollifax is amusingly naïve, but Gilman shows from the outset that there is steel inside her. While there are some extraordinary coincidences and misunders...
Rating 7/10Mrs. Pollifax takes a long hard look at her life and decides that she wants to be a spy. So what does she do? Go out and be one of course!! Mrs. Pollifax then gets thrown into the spy world with a bang! She might be new to the game but her life experiences has taught her a lot. She meets ...
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