Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

All throughout reading this book, I found myself smiling.

This book was published in 1938 and tells the tale of Miss Pettigrew, a failing governess who's life thus far has been quiet, polite and “ladylike”, but, as the title gives away, this day, she lives.

I've never before read a book that I've non-stop smiled whilst reading.

I found myself falling quickly in love with Miss Pettigrew and wanting her to have all the kindness she deserved.

A perfect guilty pleasure read. This book has a fairytale structure. It has drama. It has debauchery. It has romance. It is an absolute pleasure to read and it is a book that can be devoured in one sitting and like a particularly good glass of red wine or a sumptuous cream cake can make you want to sigh with satisfaction. Some parts of the book certainly reflect the time period it was written in (a pre war London) but the juicy scandalous lives of the liberated women Miss Durbarry and Miss LaFosse's make this book so compelling and indulgent. A fantastic book. The original and superior first ever rom/chick lit style book. I loved it and I think you will be hard pressed to disagree with me!

Loved, loved, loved this book. Miss Pettigrew is middle-aged, a spinster, and having trouble finding a new position as a nanny. She has never really been successful in her profession. She's dowdy and has no friends and no suitors. Her life is about as grim as life can get. Then she is inadvertently sent by her employment agency to the wrong house where she meets a nightclub singer. Her whole life is about to change.