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Buchbeschreibung Softcover. Zustand: new. Product DescriptionWritten with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller Major Pettigrews Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and traditionWhen retired Major Pettigrew strikes up an unlikely friendship with Mrs Ali the Pakistani village shopkeeper he is drawn out of his regimented world and forced to confront the realities of life in the twentyfirst century Brought together by a shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses the Major and Mrs Ali soon find their friendship on the cusp of blossoming into something more But although the Major was actually born in Lahore and Mrs Ali was born in Cambridge village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a permanent foreigner The Major has always taken special pride in the village but will he be forced to choose between the place he calls home and a future with Mrs AliReviewA beautiful little love story which is told with skill and humorThe New York Times Book ReviewFunny barbed delightfully winsome storytelling As with the polished work of Alexander McCall Smith there is never a dull moment Its all about intelligence heart dignity and backbone Major Pettigrews Last Stand has them allThe New York TimesDelightful Lots of books try to evoke Jane Austen but Simonson nails the genteel British comedy of manners with elegant aplombThe Christian Science MonitorThoroughly charming With her crisp wit and gentle insight Simonson knows just what delicious disruption romance can introduce to a wellsettled lifeThe Washington PostTheres more than a bit of Romeo and Juliet here Major Pettigrew and Mrs Ali are worthy of our respect and it is a great pleasure to spend time with themLos Angeles TimesMarvelous graceful funny perceptive and satisfyingThe Boston GlobeA comforting and intelligent debut a modernday story of love that takes everyonegrown children villagers and the main participantsby surprise as real love stories tend to doElizabeth Strout Pulitzer Prizewinning author of Olive KitteridgeHelen Simonson invests her grownup love story with warmth and charmUSA TodayA wise comedy about the unexpected miracle of laterlife love The beauty of this engaging book is in the charactersO The Oprah MagazineWith courting curmudgeons wayward sons religion race and real estate in a petty and picturesque English village Major Pettigrews Last Stand is surprisingly wonderfully romantic and fresh the best first novel Ive read in a long long timeCathleen Schine author of The Love LetterEndlessly entertainingMinneapolis Star TribunePlayful yet affecting If you miss the Jeeves novels of P G Wodehouseand dont mind having your emotional buttons pushedMajor Pettigrews Last Stand is the book for youBuffalo NewsIrresistibly delightfulLibrary Journal starred reviewAbout the AuthorHelen Simonson was born in England and spent her teenage years in a small village in East Sussex A graduate of the London School of Economics and former travel advertising executive she has lived in America for the last two decades A longtime resident of Brooklyn she now lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington DC area This is her first novelExcerpt Reprinted by permission All rights reservedChapter OneMajor Pettigrew was still upset about the phone call from his brothers wife and so he answered the doorbell without thinking On the damp bricks of the path stood Mrs Ali from the village shop She gave only the faintest of starts the merest arch of an eyebrow A quick rush of embarrassment flooded to the Majors cheeks and he smoothed helplessly at the lap of his crimson clematiscovered housecoat with hands that felt like spadesA. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers DADAX0812981227
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