"In the noisy
world of today it is a delight to find a novel that dares to assert
itself quietly with the lovely rhythm of Helen Simonson's funny,
comforting, and intelligent debut, a modern-day story of love that
takes everyone--grown children, villagers, and the main
participants--by surprise, as real love stories tend to do."
Elizabeth Strout author of Olive Kitteridge
"I
love this book. With courting curmudgeons, wayward sons, religion,
race, and real estate in a petty and picturesque English village, Major
Pettigrew's Last Stand is surprisingly, wonderfully romantic and fresh.
Unsentimental, intelligent, and warm, this endlessly amusing comedy of
manners is the best first novel I've read in a long, long time."
Cathleen Schine, author of The Three Weissmanns of Westport
Helen Simonson was born in England and spent her teenage years in a
small village in East Sussex. A graduate of the London School of
Economics and former travel advertising executive, she has lived in
America for the last two decades. After many years in Brooklyn, she now
lives with her husband and two sons in the Washington, D.C. area.
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