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Winifred watson novels6/22/2023 When Miss Pettigrew arrives at the luxury flat at 10 am, she is frantically invited in by Delysia who, without troubling to find out why Miss Pettigrew is there, enlists her help in getting rid of Phil, a lover who has stayed the night. Her employment agency arranges an interview with Delysia LaFosse, a nightclub singer and socialite, whom they believe to be looking for a nursery governess though in fact she is seeking a maid. Guinevere Pettigrew, a straitlaced unsuccessful governess in her late 40s, is facing destitution. The action takes place during a single day. In 2008 the novel was adapted into a film of the same name. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is a novel by Winifred Watson, first published in 1938 by Methuen & Co with illustrations by Mary Thomson.
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