HELEN SIMONSON |
Here from her Washington, D.C.-area home is Helen Simonson. Her utterly winning debut novel, Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (Random House), has become a story unto itself, as readers have leapt early and enthusiastically into its embrace. Based in an English countryside village (Ms. Simonson came of age in one such), this tale has at its heart an unlikely but lovely romance. "Funny, barbed, delightfully winsome storytelling ... As with the polished work of Alexander McCall Smith, there is never a dull moment but never a discordant note either ... [the book's] main characters are especially well drawn, and Ms. Simonson makes them as admirable as they are entertaining ... It's all about intelligence, heart, dignity and backbone. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand has them all." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times. "When depicted by the right storyteller, the thrill of falling in love is funnier and sweeter at 60 than at 16 ... With her crisp wit and gentle insight, Simonson is still far from her golden years ... but somehow in her first novel she already knows just what delicious disruption romance can introduce to a well-settled life." - Ron Charles, The Washington Post.
- Street:
- The Elliott Bay Book Company
- Additional:
- 1521 Tenth Avenue
- City:
- Seattle ,
- Province:
- Washington
- Postal Code:
- 98122
- Country:
- United States
