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Plot-wise, Keystone cop KGB officers mistake a char lady as Lady Char, an aristocrat and therefore clearly a spy. Harris is one of those characters you just don't forget, and despite the book coming out many decades ago, it transcends the years.
Nancy Mitford wrote a short diary of her time in Russia, it’s in The Water beetle if you fancy another look at Russia. He was removed from this job as his "reviews were too Smart Alecky" (according to Confessions of a Story Teller), and took refuge in the sports department. She was genuinely moved by the sight, moved to murmer, ‘Cor blimey, but ain’t it beautiful,’ and felt suddenly glad that she had come. Mrs Harris Goes To Moscow is the fourth and final in Gallico’s occasional series of books about the adventures of Mrs Ada Harris, a widowed London char woman.
Harris, the two London ladies are incorrectly taken for spies and get into some very compromising situations.
To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Mrs Harris, with not too many points of reference, could only think of it as a combination of a bejewelled fairy city and an amusement park with only the rollercoaster and other thrill rides missing.Great to see to see that Bloomsbury have reprinted his books so that a new audience will enjoy them I'm sure. For all its farce-like feel, Mrs Harris Goes To Moscow does reveal the dominant themes and experiences that a Western visitor to Moscow in the 1970s might note.