Book description
EPISODE 5 IN A MAJOR BBC DRAMA STARRING TIMOTHY SPALL, DAVID
WALLIAMS AND JENNIFER SAUNDERS
Freddie must keep his new Portuguese wife a secret from Connie.
Clarence's niece - the lisping Gertrude - has been imprisoned at
Blandings by Connie and forced to overhaul Clarence's library. It's
driving him crazy. Gertrude's forbidden love, the clumsy Revd Beefy
Bingham, infiltrates Blandings using a false identity determined to
win Clarence's approval for the match.
Meanwhile, Freddie has inadvertently married a Portuguese exotic
dancer and must do his utmost to keep it a secret from Connie.
'Sublime comic genius'
Ben Elton
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its
warmth and splendour.'
Stephen Fry
'The funniest writer ever to put words to paper.'
Hugh Laurie
'P. G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind
of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply,
or with quite as much wit and affection.'
Julian Fellowes
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.
