Unwelcome guests are descending on Blandings Castle - particularly the overbearing Duke of Dunstable, who settles in the Garden Suite with no intention of leaving, and Lady Constance, Lord Emsworth's sister and a lady of firm disposition, who arrives unexpectedly from New York. Skulduggery is also afoot involving the sale of a modern nude painting (mistaken by Lord Emsworth for a pig). It's enough to take the noble earl on the short journey to the end of his wits.
Luckily Clarence's brother Galahad Threepwood, cheery survivor of the raffish Pelican Club, is on hand to set things right, restore sundered lovers and even solve all the mysteries.
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Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already -
The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes! -
Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists -
P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection -
Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny -
I've recorded all the Jeeves books, and I can tell you this: it's like singing Mozart. The perfection of the phrasing is a physical pleasure. I doubt if any writer in the English language has more perfect music -
Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some -
I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language -
Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work -
To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment -
Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour! -
The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon -
Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny -
The greatest comic writer ever -
P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century -
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer, contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.