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7 Books to Watch for in March 2010

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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

By Helen Simonson
368 pages; Random House

The shy romance between a retired British officer and a local Pakistani shopkeeper is the main plotline of Helen Simonson's Major Pettigrew's Last Stand. But this delightful debut novel is as much a gently p.c. look at the British class system tucked inside a sly comedy of manners as it is a love story...Read more

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