 Popsugar Reading Challenge category: A story that takes place over a 24-hour period
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, by Winifred Watson This is a fluffy, good-natured comedy set in 1920s London. Guinevere Pettigrew is a rather proper 40-year-old spinster who arrives at the home of Miss LaFosse, a glamorous but insecure starlet, to interview for a job. By the end of the day, Miss Pettigrew has consumed quite a lot of alcohol, gone clubbing in a borrowed dress, sorted out Miss LaFosse's love life for her, made friends, landed a job worthy of her talents, and found a boyfriend. And she's decided she doesn't have to be so proper after all. A couple of items have aged badly from a book written in 1938. In advising Miss LaFosse on her love life, Miss Pettigrew rules out one of the boyfriends because he looks a bit Jewish, and, "people should stick to their own kind." She decides another of Miss LaFosse's 3 boyfriends is Mr. Right because he grabs and shakes her in anger, and later he says he'll give her "physical correction" when needed. Curiously, he's the "nice guy" boyfriend that she'd originally written off as boring. Miss Pettigrew convinces Miss LaFosse that he's the right man - after he punches the "bad boy" boyfriend, at Miss Pettigrew's urging.
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