All characters give to each other insights into enriching and indeed changing directions in each other’s lives for the ultimate better! An optimistic book when optimism was so needed ! So it is for now as we battle and emerge from a world pandemic we need to take stock, take on difference accept and forge ahead with courage and do and live better. This is a great book a fun book a satisfying book.Ī typical portrayal of lives going nowhere then accidentally meshing into new ways of being.

One day, Miss Pettigrew strayed through the looking glass into the ditzy world of the singer-actress Delysia LaFloss where she is valued for herself, her opinions are sought and considered, a world of light and happiness, drama and intrigue, life and possibilities, kisses, hugs and naughtiness. Like Ivan, Miss Pettigrew escapes if only for a few hours from the oppressive non-existence of the governess Gulag Archipelago one envisions Agnes Grey. For this one day in a life of total misery and Spartan existence, Fate and Fortune smile on the wretched man and he lives for a few fleeting and splendid hours. As I am sure you recall, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' is story of one glorious perfect day in the life of the Soviet prisoner Ivan Denisovich. Frances McDormand's performance is brilliant. There is absolutely not a moment for a body to catch a breath. The novel has even greater delights to offer, if only because one gets to spend more time with this unlikely heroine, who serendipitously sees her life transformed like a 1930s middle-aged Cinderella. I had stumbled on the movie adaptation on television one day, which is when I experienced my first brief love affair with Miss Pettigrew, again portrayed by the remarkably talented Frances McDormand. In the wrong hands, this quaint little story might have been a sickeningly-sweet kind of affair, which is absolutely not the case here. In less than twenty-four hours filled with thrilling events the likes of which Guinevere has never experienced firsthand before, this straight-laced vicar’s daughter discovers things about herself she never knew she had in her. Instead of the disagreeable housewife she usually must contend with in her line of work, at which she isn't exactly competent, she meets with a beautiful vision of a girl, just as glamorous and delightful as the ones Guinevere Pettigrew has only seen at the movies, her one greatest guilty pleasure until then. This 1938 novel, here narrated by the excellent Frances McDormand, tells a charming little story about a hard on her luck spinster who discovers life can be full of surprise when, applying for a job as a governess, she knocks at the wrong door.

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