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'Miss Pettigrew' A Hit For Persephone Books

Posted at 7:48AM Friday 28 Mar 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.

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