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  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099514169
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
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Summer Moonshine




‘You don’t analyse such sunlit perfection: you just bask in its warmth and splendour’ Stephen Fry

Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford Hall, one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich (if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he's overjoyed - particularly as he's being rooked by the publisher of his sporting memoirs. His daughter Jane comes up trumps in the company of the playwright Joe - but not before engagements are broken and fortunes lost and made. Another delightful novel form the master of the Engllish comedy, Wodehoues deftly unties all the knots he had so cleverly tied around his characters in the first place.

  • Published: 1 December 2008
  • ISBN: 9780099514169
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

About the author

P.G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the 20th century. Wodehouse wrote more than 70 novels and 200 short stories, creating numerous much-loved characters - the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress of Blandings, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge, and Psmith. His humorous articles were published in more than 80 magazines, including Punch, over six decades. He was also a highly successful music lyricist, once with over five musicals running on Broadway simultaneously. P.G. Wodehouse was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'.

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Praise for Summer Moonshine

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists

Susan Hill

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

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

I've recorded all the Jeeves books, and I can tell you this: it's like singing Mozart. The perfection of the phrasing is a physical pleasure. I doubt if any writer in the English language has more perfect music

Simon Callow

Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some

Joseph Connolly

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language

Simon Brett

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

Jane Moore

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

John Julius Norwich

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

Lindsey Davis

P.G. Wodehouse should be prescribed to treat depression. Cheaper, more effective than valium and far, far more addictive

Olivia Williams

My only problem with Wodehouse is deciding which of his enchanting books to take to my desert island

Ruth Dudley Edwards

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

Kathy Lette

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

Arabella Weir

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

Douglas Adams

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

Ben Elton

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him

John Humphrys