Laughing Gas
P.G. Wodehouse
'A lifelong treat' Simon Garfield, Esquire
A P.G. Wodehouse novel
Joey Cooley is a golden-curled child film star, the idol of American motherhood. Reginald, Third Earl of Havershot, is a boxing blue on a mission to save his wayward cousin from the fleshpots of Hollywood. Both are under anaesthetic at the dentists when something strange happens - and their identities are swapped in the ether.
Suddenly Joey can use his six-foot frame to get his own back on his Hollywood persecutors. But Reggie has to endure everything Joey had to put up with in the horrible life of a child star - including kidnap.
Laughing Gas is Wodehouse's brilliantly funny take on the 'If I were you' theme - a wry look at the dangers of getting what you wish for in the movie business and beyond.
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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
Adele Parks