Book description
Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford
Hall, one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he
has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich
(if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he's overjoyed -
particularly as he's being rooked by the publisher of his sporting
memoirs. His daughter Jane comes up trumps in the company of the
playwright Joe - but not before engagements are broken and fortunes lost
and made. Another delightful novel form the master of the Engllish
comedy, Wodehoues deftly unties all the knots he had so cleverly tied
around his characters in the first place. 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.
