![]() ![]() Join the Circle for author chats and more. Ali at Colonel Preston's Lodge, Simonson writes that 'a pleasant glow, deep in his gut, was all that remained of a night that seemed to have burned away the years from his back. Can their relationship survive the risks one takes when pursuing happiness in the face of culture and tradition? In the outset of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, the Major is described as feeling the weight of his age, but on page 320, the morning after his romantic evening with Mrs. 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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