
The Small Bachelor
P.G. Wodehouse
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...
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John Humphrys For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day
Marian Keyes Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already
Lynne Truss The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!
Kate Mosse Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists
Susan Hill 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 A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting
Alan Ayckbourn P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit
Christopher Hitchens To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language
Ben Schott Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny
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