- Middle-aged women, Singers, Fiction, Governesses
Miss Pettigrew, a governess looking for work, is sent by mistake to the home of Delysia LaFosse, a glamorous nightclub singer involved with three different men and is invited to stay after offering Miss LaFosse common sense advice about her love life.
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Classical in form, warm, intimate and effortless.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Winifred Watson
- First published
- 1939
- Pages
- 245
- Publisher
- Persephone, Peresphone Books, Persephone Books
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781906462024
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