![]() ![]() Miss Pettigrew has had to spend a dowdy and impecunious life as a governess “living in other people’s houses and being dependent on their moods”.īut this sad situation makes it feel all the more splendid when she is offered a reprieve from her threadbare existence and falls into the “the way of sin” with the louche younger woman Miss LaFosse. The titular Miss Pettigrew is a “superfluous woman”, of the generation after the first world war when women far outnumbered men, leading to those who didn’t land a husband being considered “on the shelf” and all too often ending up in domestic service. It’s also worth noting that even if this book is determinedly amusing, there are darker shades in the background. ![]()
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