![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Join the Circle for author chats and more. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand Helen Simonson 3.90 138,978 ratings13,795 reviews Want to read Kindle 9.99 Rate this book Written with a delightfully dry sense of humour and the wisdom of a born storyteller, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand explores the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of family obligation and tradition. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition? But village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and regarding her as the permanent foreigner. Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their spouses, the Major and Mrs. Jasmina Ali, the Pakistani shopkeeper from the village. But then his brother s death sparks an unexpected friendship with Mrs. Wry, courtly, opinionated, and completely endearing, the Major leads a quiet life valuing the proper things that Englishmen have lived by for generations: honor, duty, decorum, and a properly brewed cup of tea. Mary in the English countryside lives Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired), the unlikely hero of Helen Simonson s wondrous debut. ![]()
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