Miss Pettigrew lives for a day

Format:

Audio disc

Title:

Miss Pettigrew lives for a day

Author:

Watson, Winifred, 1906-2002.

ISBN:

9781906462062

Publication Information:

[London] : [Persephone], 2008.

Physical Description:

5 audio discs (6 hr., 8 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.

General Note:

Unabridged.

Summary:

Miss Pettigrew is a down-on-her-luck, middle-aged governess in London sent by her employment agency to work for nightclub singer Delysia LaFosse, rather than a household of unruly children. Over a period of 24 hours her life is changed forever.

Subject(s):

Governesses -- Fiction.

Middle-aged women -- Fiction.

Women -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.

Singers -- Fiction.

Women entertainers -- Fiction.

Man-woman relationships -- England -- London -- Fiction.

London (England) -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

London (England) -- Fiction.

Genre:

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Summary

“Don’t let this delightfully frothy drawing-room comedy get lost between the sofa cushions.”-Salon.com

“ Miss Pettigrew is irresistible, a perfect mix of wistfulness and joy, substance and froth.”-Tracy Chevalier, author of Girl with a Pearl Earring

“ Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is perhaps the happiest, most ebullient piece of fiction ever written for adults.”- Newsday

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 Newcastle and was a secretary until, in 1935, she married Leslie Pickering, the manager of a timber firm. She wrote six novels in all, but after the birth of her son in 1941, she stopped writing and lived quietly in Newcastle for the rest of her life.

Author Notes

Winifred Watson (1907-2002) lived in Newcastle and wrote six novels in all; she chose to stop writing after the birth of her son in 1941. The Times interviewed her at age 94 when Persephone Books reissued the book in 2000. The headline was "Bodice-Ripping Fame at 94".