"Major Pettigrew鈥檚 Last Stand," by Helen Simonson (Random House, 368 pp., $25). Jane Austen meets Alexander McCall Smith in this charming tale of a late-in-life love story set in an English village. (CSMonitor.com, 3/19/10)
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