![]() ![]() ![]() Over the course of a single day, both women are changed forever. Bharat Nalluris Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a much more attractive Anglo-American collaboration, co-scripted by Simon Beaufoy (author of The Full Monty) and the. ![]() amanda4242: Both books are sure to cheer up anyone having a miserable day. The alluring nightclub singer, Delysia LaFosse, becomes her new employer, and Miss Pettigrew encounters a kind of glamour that she had only met before at the movies. 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. When her employment agency sends her to the wrong address, her life takes an unexpected turn. Some features have failed to load due to an. Miss Pettigrew, an approaching-middle-age governess, was accustomed to a household of unruly English children. Product details page for Miss Pettigrew lives for a day by Winifred Watson is loaded. First published in 1938, it was reissued in the United Kingdom in 2000, complete with thirty-five original illustrations, and has sold over 22,000 copies. "Why has it taken more than half a century for this wonderful flight of humor to be rediscovered?"- Guardian "The sweetest grown-up book in the world."- Sunday Times "Everyone, no matter how poor or prim or neglected, has a second chance to blossom in the world."- Daily Mail, in reference to Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day A major film to be released in 2008 and starring Frances McDormand, Miss Pettigrew Lives for Day is a delightful, funny, lighthearted novel. ![]()
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