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The Girl in Blue
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409064145
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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The Girl in Blue

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3 Jan 2024
EBook
1 Sept 2010
Paperback
1 Jan 2009
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'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry

A P.G. Wodehouse novel

Young Jerry West has a few problems. His uncle Crispin is broke and employs a butler who isn't all he seems. His other uncle Willoughby is rich but won't hand over any of his inheritance. And to cap it all, although already engaged, Jerry has just fallen in love with the wonderful Jane Hunnicutt, whom he's just met on jury service. But she's an heiress, and that's a problem too - because even if he can extricate himself from his grasping fiancée Jerry can't be a gold-digger.

Enter The Girl in Blue - a Gainsborough miniature which someone has stolen from Uncle Willoughby. Jerry sets out on a mission to find her - and somehow hilariously in the process everything comes right.
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409064145
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 224
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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The Pothunters
Jeeves Again
Fine Weather, Jeeves
Sunset At Blandings
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Praise for The Girl in Blue

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting

Alan Ayckbourn

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

Lindsey Davis

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

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

Simon Brett

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

John Humphrys

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

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

Susan Hill

P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit

Christopher Hitchens

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

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

Sebastian Faulks

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

Jane Moore

Sublime comic genius

Ben Elton

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

Douglas Adams

The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!

Kate Mosse

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

Kathy Lette

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language

Ben Schott

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

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

Arabella Weir

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already

Lynne Truss

Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny

Adele Parks

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

Joseph Connolly