Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

Miss Pettigrew, the vicar’s daughter and a modest governess left without work, gets a job with a young actress and immediately finds herself in the London high society of the 1930s: luxurious nightclubs, chic outfits, incredible men, and love intrigues. Here, she should be shocked and run back to what’s familiar—dull, poverty-stricken, but proven. Yet the desire to see the beau monde—not on a cinema screen—wins. And Miss Pettigrew stays. She doesn’t yet know that this one day will change her entire life.

“One Day in the Life of Miss Pettigrew” is an incredibly lively, vivid story that captures the reader with its delicate humor, zest for life, and women’s wisdom. The name Winifred Watson stands in English literature alongside Pelham Grenville Wodehouse and Jerome K. Jerome.