El gran día de la señorita Pettigrew

Resumen del libro

La señorita Pettigrew, hija de un párroco, lleva toda la vida de casa en casa, ejerciendo de institutriz de niños espantosos .
A sus cuarenta años, tímida y derrotada , no tiene un penique ni un vestido decente, está en paro y a punto de ser desahuciada.
Una agencia de empleo le da la que podría ser su última oportunidad, pero cuando se presenta en el lujoso piso de la señora que la contrata, se encuentra con una joven belleza que le pide, apuradísima, que la ayude a deshacerse de un amante porque espera la inminente llegada de otro.
Empieza así un largo día en el que, hora tras hora, la institutriz no gana para sobresaltos: su nueva patrona, la señorita Delysia LaFosse, no parece tener hijos, es cantante de un club nocturno, no solo tiene dos amantes sino tres y la introduce en un mundo inédito de fiestas, glamour y aventuras.

Biografía del autor

WINIFRED WATSON was brought up in Newcastle, where her father owned three shops. Educated at St Ronan's School, Berwick-on-Tweed, she was a secretary until, in 1935, aged 28, she married Leslie Pickering, the manager of a timber firm. She wrote Fell Top in 1935 and Odd Shoes a year later, 'two rather strong dramas...but when they received a book that was fun - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day 1938 - they would not accept it...I can remember to this day looking up at the publisher and saying, ''You are wrong, Miss Pettigrew is a winner.'' But he just looked stubborn. I wrote another straight novel Upyonder, 1938 and, when they did publish Miss Pettigrew, I was proved right... France published it, Australia, and even Germany was about to only the war came.' Winifred Watson published two more novels, but stopped writing not long after the birth of her son in 1941. She lived in Newcastle for the rest of her life and died there in 2002.<br>