The Girl in Blue
  • Published: 3 January 2024
  • ISBN: 9781841591711
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $35.00
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The Girl in Blue

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Hardback
3 Jan 2024
EBook
1 Sep 2010
Paperback
1 Jan 2009
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This charming novel is one of Wodehouse's best late works.

The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering country house, an overweight solicitor, a fortune-hunter, a butler who isn't a butler, an American corporate lawyer and his kleptomaniac sister; but the heart of the story - in every sense - concerns Jerry West and his determined pursuit of air hostess Jane Hunnicutt, the eponymous Girl in Blue. When Jane unexpectedly becomes a millionairess, Jerry despairs of wooing her, but the sun never goes behind a cloud for long in Wodehouse: Jerry gets his Jane in the end, but only after a series of trials which raise the comic stakes to the author's highest level.
  • Published: 3 January 2024
  • ISBN: 9781841591711
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 208
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the author

P.G. Wodehouse

Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ‘Plum’) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler’s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ‘having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine’s Day.

Also by P.G. Wodehouse

Above Average at Games
The Inimitable Jeeves
The Pothunters
Fine Weather, Jeeves
Carry On, Jeeves
Right Ho, Jeeves
Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves
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Praise for The Girl in Blue

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in

Evelyn Waugh

A handsome, collectable hardback edition

Lynne Truss, The Times