Book description
A Blandings novel
Uncle Fred is one of the hottest earls who ever donned a coronet. Or
as he crisply puts it, 'There are no limits, literally none, to what I
can achieve in the springtime.'
Even so, his gifts are stretched to the limit when he is urged by
Lord Emsworth to save his prize pig, the Empress of Blandings, from
the enforced slimming cure of the haughty Duke of Dunstable. Pongo
Twistleton knows his debonair but wild uncle shouldn't really be
allowed at large - especially when disguised as a brain surgeon. He
fears the worst. And in yet another brilliant novel by the master of
English comedy, Pongo will soon find his fears are amply justified.
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.
