Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson

Ali to make the dance as un-racist as possible. Their theme is 'An Evening at the Mughal Court,' and Grace and the Major agree to collaborate with Mrs. While all this is happening, the Major is wrangled into planning a village dance by Daisy, the vicar's wife, and Grace, a member of the flower committee. He gets the gun and polishes it back to new. The American land developer is real, but the Major has no plans to sell. The Major formulates a little white lie, saying that he will show the guns to an American land developer, though his intention is to get the other gun back and restore it. To make this family dispute worse, the Major's brother included nothing about the guns in his will, meaning that his widow is free to do whatever she wants with them. The Major looks forward to reuniting the pair.

When the Major's father died years ago, he left his sons a pair of hunting guns, one gun per son, with the promise they be reunited and passed on when one of them died. At the funeral, not only does the Major's son, Roger, show up late, but everyone also seems focused on one thing-a family heirloom worth thousands of pounds. Ali drives the Major to his brother's funeral. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship. The two have previously only crossed paths in the shop, but this day, she enters his house to prepare him some tea and console him. Ali, the town shopkeeper in the village of Edgecombe St. On the morning Major Ernest Pettigrew's brother dies, the Major, himself a widower pushing seventy, receives an unexpected visitor: Mrs.

Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson