Sent this off to Carole 888 a hundred years ago - well possibly 2011. Sorry it's taken so long to register it!

Thank you so much house-elfdobby!! And yes, this travelled across to me, a few years ago and it was a wonderful surprise when it arrived. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it .... loved the characters, ... the tone is humourous and witty, ... quite often I would find myself smiling as I read. I heard that there was a possibility of a movie, but it is only in planning stages. Will be interesting to see how that turns out. I also think the the book has a cute cover!!

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I put this book into Round 39 of theOZVBB(The Australian Virtual Book Box on Library Thing. It has been chosen to travel and has now started a journey to the North of Australia. Once again thank you so much house-elfdobby for this lovely read. I look forward to hearing more reading-adventures soon. Enjoy! :)

Arrived first thing this morning.

Major Ernest Pettigrew (retired) leads a quiet life in the small rural English village of Edgecombe St Mary where he values the proper things that Englishmen have treasured for generations - honour, duty, decorum and a properly brewed cup of tea. The Major takes pleasure in his well-organised and rational life until he finds out that his patronising son, and the kind yet interfering ladies of the village, seem to have their own, rather special plans for him.

It takes news of his brother's death, though, to open the Major's eyes to Mrs Jasmina Ali, the village shopkeeper, and confound all those carefully laid plans. Drawn together by their shared love of literature and the loss of their respective spouses, the Major and Mrs Ali soon find their friendship blossoming into something more. But although the Major was actually born in Lahore, and Mrs Ali in Cambridge, village society insists on embracing him as the quintessential local and her as a permanent foreigner.

A most unlikely hero, Major Pettigrew finds himself contending with irate relatives and an outraged village before he comes to understand his own heart.

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Arrived safely today. Thank you so much for the tag!

I really enjoyed this one too. Another great Richard & Judy recommendation.

I’ve offered this book in the RABCK forum so it will be off to a new reader at the end of the month.

And today, after a little campertrip, I found the book in my mailbox.
Thank you, brunton11, for sending it to me, and for the BCgoodies.
I'll let you know what I think of it.

I enjoyed this book.
The major is someone from the old school, but he's up to date when it comes to putting his son in his place. The problem of immigrants in a small village is also in force here. Mrs. Ali knows how to deal with it well and laughs at the pettyness, even if it hurts. The tradition of her people is deeply ingrained, but she always takes the right side. The major chooses her and so it still becomes a happy ending.

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