The FiFi Report 299

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand ….by Helen Simonson
It’s the book everyone is reading and loving !
‘Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the small rural English village of Edgecombe St Mary where he values the proper things that Englishmen have treasured for generations - honour, duty, decorum and a properly brewed cup of tea. The Major takes pleasure in his well-organised and rational life until he finds out that his patronising son, and the kind yet interfering ladies of the village, seem to have their own, rather special plans for him.
It takes news of his brother’s death, though, to open the Major’s eyes to Mrs Jasmina Ali, the village shopkeeper. 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.
Written with warmth, feeling and a delightfully dry sense of humour, this very modern love story will have you cheering wildly for the Major and Mrs Ali and believing that sometimes life does give you a second chance.
$32 , Published March 2010 from Allenandunwin.com