I really enjoyed Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson which is set in a lovely little village in England. When his brother dies, widowed Major Pettigrew ponders his own mortality and reassesses what is important. He falls in love with a widow and their romance encounters obstacles along the way - race, class, religion, family. Major Pettigrew is a wonderful character with great integrity and he shows up some of the ridiculous aspects of the English "upper classes". Delightful. 4/5
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