Book description
A P. G. Wodehouse novel
It's America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is
setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of
talent. George falls in love with Molly, whose imperious stepmother
Mrs Waddington insists he's not the man to marry the stepdaughter of
one of New York's most fashionable hostesses. Poor George - he doesn't
seem to stand a chance.
How George eventually triumphs over the bossy Mrs Waddington makes
for a dizzying plot featuring some of Wodehouse's most appealing minor
characters - Mullett the butler and his light-fingered girlfriend
Fanny, J. Hamilton Beamish, author of the dynamic Beamish Booklets,
Officer Garroway the poetic policeman, and Sigsbee H. Waddington, the
hen-pecked husband who longs for the wide open spaces of the West.
Oh, and does Prohibition mean there's no booze? In a Wodehouse
novel? You'll have to wait and see...
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.
