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'Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is perhaps the happiest, most ebullient piece of fiction every written for adults.' Newsday.com
March 2008

'There is no “official” movie tie-in edition of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day, the 1930s period film starring Amy Adams and Frances McDormand currently in theaters. However, a small English publishing house, Persephone Books, which re-releases forgotten classics by 20th-century (mostly) women writers and has two stores in London, has sold 23,000 copies worldwide of its version of Winifred Watson’s novel. It’s the biggest seller in Persephone’s nine-year history.' Publishers Weekly
March 2008

There was a nice article in The Guardian by Leonie Cooper.
February 2008

We can now send a book a month for six or twelve months - more >

Fabrics
We sell three fabrics supplied by the excellent Borderline Fabrics: Black Goose, used for Farewell, Leicester Square; a variation on Star, used for The Hopkins Manuscript; and Fritillary, used for Gardener’s Nightcap. The fabrics are 137 cm wide and cost £40 per metre, which is, alas, not cheap but half a metre would make a couple of cushions.