Book description
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
Jeeves is on holiday in Herne Bay, and while he's away the world
caves in on Bertie Wooster. For a start, he's astonished to read in
The Times of his engagement to the mercurial Bobbie Wickham. Then at
Brinkley Court, his Aunt Dahlia's establishment, he finds his awful
former head master in attendance ready to award the prizes at Market
Snodsbury Grammar School. And finally the Brinkley butler turns out
for reasons of his own to be Bertie's nemesis in disguise, the brain
surgeon Sir Roderick Glossop.
With all occasions informing against him, Bertie has to hightail it
to Herne Bay to liberate Jeeves from his shrimping net. And after
that, the fun really starts.
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.
