![]() Miss Pettigrew has her first taste of alcohol, is given a fashionable makeover and is deliciously shocked by the affairs of Miss LaFosse, who cannot choose between three men. A governess named Miss Pettigrew is accidentally sent to the wrong address by her employment agency and is immediately drawn into the glamorous world of nightclub singer Miss LaFosse. Actually it’s quite silly anyhow, but I’m sure that when it was first published in 1938, it provided amusing escapism from worries about war on the horizon. ![]() The story would be too silly without this context. We are told early on that ‘her weekly orgy at the cinema’ is her one extravagance in an otherwise dull existence. ![]() I have a theory about this book: the story is one long daydream or hallucination of the prim middle-aged Miss Pettigrew, who has watched too many romantic movies. ![]()
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