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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson
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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand

By Helen Simonson
368 pages; Random House

A delightful comedy of manners about the late-life love affair between a snooty British major and his far classier Pakistani shopkeeper/neighbor.

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From the December 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine
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