Major Pettigrew's Last Stand / Helen Simonson / 358 pages

This book was recommended to me by several co-workers over the past few years, and I finally got around to listening to it while on a long road trip.  The book had me laughing out loud from its humorous qualities, which included outrageous insensitive comments and a great deal of wit and dry humor. It’s about a lonely and somewhat rigid widower, Major Pettigrew, who has a taste for the traditional English ways of life.  In the beginning of the story, he suffers a loss that actually sparks a new friendship with the local tea shop owner, which quickly becomes the talk of the town -- you know rumors and small towns!  (And what makes the gossip even juicier is that the shop owner is from Pakistan!)  I actually recommend listening to it because you get a better sense of the dry humor, plus, who doesn't want to listen to British accents?