Book description
A Blandings novel
Can the Empress of Blandings win the Fat Pigs class at the
Shropshire Show for the third year running? Galahad Threepwood, Beach
the butler and others have put their shirt on this, and for Lord
Emsworth it will be paradise on earth. But a substantial obstacle
lurks in the way: Queen of Matchingham, the new sow of Sir Gregory
Parsloe Bart. Galahad knows this pretender to the crown must be
pignapped. But can the Empress in turn avoid a similar fate?
In this classic Blandings novel, pigs rise above their bulk to
vanish and reappear in the most unlikely places, while young lovers
are crossed and recrossed in every room in Blandings Castle.
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.
