Author:P.G. Wodehouse
Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, is not the man to run away from other people’s romantic problems, not even when faced with the tangled relationships of his godson, Johnny, Johnny’s girlfriend, Belinda, butler Albert Peasemarch and Peasemarch’s beloved, Phoebe, who happens to be the sister of his employer, bad-tempered Sir Raymond ‘Beefy’ Bastable. Sir Raymond is himself in pursuit of Barbara Crowe. Everything turns on the fate of the script for a film called Cocktail-Time by Bastable’s nephew, Cosmo Wisdom – but just to stir the mixture a little further, Wodehouse throws in American con-artist Oily Carlisle. Now read on...
A brilliant, sometimes terrible novel about the generation war within a family, as witty and cool as it is heart-rending
—— Auberon Waugh , Daily MailPainful...gripping...her "private" story reaches far beyond the merely personal
—— ObserverA great, heaving countryside of a book...consistently funny...fluent and elusive, while retaining just the right hint of poison
—— TelegraphStephenson mixes a library’s worth of ideas with compulsive derring-do … its scope and inventiveness become addictive.
—— Time OutA breathless ride…the writing gives an immersive sense of time and place
—— FaceA brilliant, bulging historical novel ... Thrillingly accomplished ... Magnificent ... one finishes it already eager to begin the sequel
—— GuardianHis style is spare, that's what is so beautiful. His novels are genuine romans philosophies - novels illustrating ideas
—— Piers Paul ReadIn a class by himself...the ultimate chronicler of twentieth-century man’s consciousness and anxiety
—— William Golding
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