Simonson creates the feel of the rural English village with consummate ease, from the Lord of the Manor desperately trying to keep up his estate to the Golf Club with its exclusive membership to the well-meaning Ladies led by the vicar’s wife. As unlikely as it may seem, he finds he has a lot in common with this gentle woman of Pakistani descent. Some six years after the death of his wife Nancy, it takes the events surrounding the sudden death of his younger brother, Bertie, to bring Mrs Jasmina Ali, the owner of the village shop, to his notice.
Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) lives in the charming English village of Edgecombe St Mary. Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand is the first novel of British-born American author, Helen Simonson.
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