A gloriously witty novel from Sebastian Faulks using P.G. Wodehouse's much-loved characters, Jeeves and Wooster, fully authorised by the Wodehouse estate.
Sebastian Faulks has written nineteen books, of which A Week in December and The Fatal Englishman were number one in the Sunday Times bestseller lists. He is best known for Birdsong, part of his French trilogy, and Human Traces, the first in an ongoing Austrian trilogy. Before becoming a full-time writer, he worked as a journalist on national papers. He has also written screenplays and has appeared in small roles on stage. He lives in London.
It is a wonderfully happy book.
*Guardian*
This light-hearted romp is delightfully witty, packed with puns and
boasts a few phrases that Wodehouse himself would have deemed
top-hole. Splendid stuff.
*Sunday Mirror*
The finished product resembles, in all but cover, a traditional
Wodehousian yarn. Harking back to the summer of 1926, it is a
gentle, jolly tale – of farce and mistaken identity, of love lost
and found, of cricket matches, village fetes and the eccentric
upper classes.
*Telegraph*
At two memorable moments in Jeeves and the Wedding Bells I did
indeed laugh until I cried… Jeeves and the Wedding Bells is a
masterpiece… This is a pitch-perfect undertaking: proof, almost a
century after his debut, that Jeeves may not be so inimitable after
all.
*Spectator*
The plot is satisfyingly convoluted in the best Wodehouse tradition
. . . A genuine addition to my growing Wodehouse collection and
there is no higher tribute.
*Daily Express*
He catches the Wodehousean idiom, periphrasis, surreal similes and
bally silliness to a T, all done with love. Please commission a
dozen more, Hutchinson.
*Literary Review*
From the first page of Sebastian Faulks’s entirely delightful book
. . . we are transported to Wodehouse land. All the details, of
plot, of character, and of setting, are lovingly drawn. The hours
spent reading Jeeves and the Wedding Bells are pure pleasure.
*Financial Times*
Faulks has caught the mood and the dialogue perfectly
*Sunday Express*
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