In general, the period is portrayed well. Very nice music and jaw-droppingly beautiful art direction build a wonderful atmosphere for this period piece. David Magee and Simon Beaufoy adapted the novel for the screen. Torn between three men and desperately wanting to find fame, Delysia takes Miss Pettigrew on a wild ride (complete with a fancy makeover) as the threat of war looms over 1930s England.īharat Nalluri directs 2008’s Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, based on Winifred Watson’s 1938 novel of the same name. Upon arrival at what will hopefully be her new place of employment, Miss Pettigrew is surprised to find that the client is an American singer named Delysia who wants to hire a “social secretary” to help ensure that she gets the big West End stage role she’s coveting. When the agency fails to help her find a new position, Miss Pettigrew takes matters into her own hands by stealing a client’s card from a desk and showing up at the client’s doorstep. Miss Pettigrew was also made into an excellent film (with Frances McDormand and Amy Adams) in 2008.Miss Pettigrew (Frances McDormand) is a somewhat frumpy, middle-aged London governess who has just lost her job. In 2008, Miss Pettigrew was made into a very successful film starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams.Īlso available as a Persephone Grey, a Persephone e-book and a Persephone Audiobook read by Frances McDormand. And in The Shops India Knight called Miss Pettigrew 'the sweetest grown-up book in the world'. The Guardian asked: 'Why has it taken more than half a century for this wonderful flight of humour to be rediscovered?' while the Daily Mail liked the book's message - 'that everyone, no matter how poor or prim or neglected, has a second chance to blossom in the world.' Maureen Lipman wrote in 'Books of the Year' in the Guardian : 'Perhaps the most pleasure has come from Persephone's enchanting reprints, particularly Miss Pettigrew, a fairy story set in 1930s London' and she herself entertained Radio 4 listeners with her five-part reading.
'The sheer fun, the light-heartedness' in this wonderful 1938 book 'feels closer to a Fred Astaire film than anything else' comments the Preface-writer Henrietta Twycross-Martin, who found Miss Pettigrew for Persephone Books. Miss Pettigrew Li ves for a Day is about a governess sent by an employment agency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamorous night-club singer, Miss LaFosse.
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