Author: Helen Simonson
Length: 379 pages
Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand
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Description
“You are about to travel to Edgecombe St. Mary, a small village in the English countryside filled with rolling hills, thatched cottages, and a cast of characters both hilariously original and as familiar as the members of your own family. Among them is Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson’s wondrous debut. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, Major Pettigrew is one of the most indelible characters in contemporary fiction, and from the very first page of this remarkable novel he will steal your heart.
The Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. But then his brother’s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as the permanent foreigner. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition?”
Janet Dore –
⭐️⭐️⭐️-1/2
“We are all small-minded people, creeping about the earth grubbing for our own advantage and making the very mistakes for which we want to humiliate our neighbors.”
Charming, predictable, cliché…my top three words for this book. I added a fourth when I came here to write my review and I found out that I had already read this book—forgettable!
While the characters were well-developed and there was plenty of charm and emotion on the pages of this book, it didn’t bring me anything new or original. Every character was entirely predictable and I knew everything that was going to happen.
If you’re looking for a feel-good book that isn’t going to disappoint or challenge you in any particular way, this is a good option. Although I’m not sorry I read it once, I am a bit sorry to have done so twice…I’ll never get through my TRB list if I do that!