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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand
Helen Simonson
Random House
March 2010
On Sale: March 2, 2010
Featuring: Jasmina Ali; Ernest Pettigrew
368 pages
ISBN: 1400068932
EAN: 9781400068937
Hardcover
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Fiction Family Life
You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small
village in the English countryside filled with rolling
hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both
hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your
own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired),
the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson's wondrous debut. Wry,
courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major
Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in
contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this
remarkable novel he will steal your heart. The Major leads a
quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have
lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a
properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother's death
sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the
Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by
their shared love of literature and the loss of their
respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their
friendship blossoming into something more. But village
society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local
and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship
survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the
face of culture and tradition?
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