10 perfect books for Valentine's Day gifts

8. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, by Helen Simonson

Can a retired British army officer and widower find happiness with a brainy widowed shopowner of Pakistani descent? That's the central drama of Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, a delightful comic tribute to the possibilities (and impossibilities) of late-in-life love. If you tend to like novels set in small English coastal towns and believe in the power of lovers to bond over Kipling, this is the definitive love story for you. (CSMonitor review 3/19/10)

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