Author:Elizabeth Gaskell,Pam Morris,Pam Morris,Pam Morris
Seventeen-year-old Molly Gibson worships her widowed father. But when he decides to remarry, Molly's life is thrown off course by the arrival of her vain, shallow and selfish stepmother. There is some solace in the shape of her new stepsister Cynthia, who is beautiful, sophisticated and irresistible to every man she meets. Soon the girls become close, and Molly finds herself cajoled into becoming a go-between in Cynthia's love affairs. But in doing so, Molly risks ruining her reputation in the gossiping village of Hollingford - and jeopardizing everything with the man she is secretly in love with.
An amazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining account of a man trapped in a kind of Catch 23
—— Sunday TimesTakes you by the shoulders and shakes you until your teeth rattle
—— The TimesCunningly, relentlessly jokey and sad
—— ObserverOne of the funniest books ever written
—— UncutAmazing, hilarious and unfalteringly entertaining
—— Sunday TimesHumour, wisdom and the elegance of simplicity come at you in equal measure
—— BizarreA laureate of American low life
—— TimeCunning, relentlessly jokey and sad
—— ObserverTo dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language
—— Ben SchottWodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny
—— Adele ParksI'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 CallowThe greatest comic writer ever
—— Douglas AdamsWodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some
—— Joseph ConnollyI constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language
—— Simon BrettQuite simply, the master of comic writing at work
—— Jane MooreTo 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 NorwichCompulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
—— Lindsey DavisThe funniest writer ever to put words to paper
—— Hugh LaurieP.G. Wodehouse should be prescribed to treat depression. Cheaper, more effective than valium and far, far more addictive
—— Olivia WilliamsMy only problem with Wodehouse is deciding which of his enchanting books to take to my desert island
—— Ruth Dudley EdwardsThe Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
—— Kathy LetteWitty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
—— Arabella WeirP.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
—— Sebastian FaulksSublime comic genius
—— Ben EltonWodehouse'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