Book description
An Uncle Fred novel
Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for
him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a
catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the
distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable - but unfortunately
things don't end there.
The sprightly earl finds that his action has inspired a scandalous
bestseller and a film script - but this is as nothing compared with
the entangled fates of the couples that surround him. In this
delightful novel by the master of comic fiction, Uncle Fred will
discover that only he, with his fabled sweetness and light can save
the day.
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.
