![]() ![]() She has attained the age of forty without any form of relationship, not unusual for a generation of women who had been young at the end of the First World War whose potential husbands had not returned from the battlefields. In a way more shocking is the subject of Miss Pettigrew, downtrodden governess, still bound by the conventions of a strictly moral upbringing, with low expectations of life. Today it is still a little shocking in terms of its subject matter of a nightclub singer with a variety of lovers and suggestion of drug use. A delightful book which was a little shocking in 1938 when it was first published, its survival was remarkable and a testament to the insight of Persephone books who republished it in 2000 to great popularity. ![]() Of all the splendid Persephone republished books, this is probably a favourite of many readers. ![]()
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