A delightful 1938 novel about a governess sent by an employment agency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamorous night-club singer who employs her. Preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin.
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A delightful 1938 novel about a governess sent by an employment agency to the wrong address, where she encounters a glamorous night-club singer who employs her. Preface by Henrietta Twycross-Martin.
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Miss Guinevere Pettigrew, a gentlewoman spinster approaching middle-age has been working as a governess to make ends meet, but a succession of appalling employers has left her down-trodden. Then one morning, owing to a mix-up at her employment agency, she is sent for an interview with a Miss LaFosse, a glamorous but dissolute cabaret artiste, who is seeking a new maid. Despite the moral and social gulfs between them, a surprising bond is formed, and by the end of the day, both their lives have been entirely transformed.
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"'Why has it taken more than half a century for this wonderful flight of humour to be rediscovered?' the Guardian 'The sweetest grown-up book in the world.' India Knight"
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