Here's the clever little teaser from the back of the edition of the book I have: "In a sunny story which involves chorus-girls, the theatre and a ball at the castle during a two-week house-party, Wodehouse deftly unties all the knots which he had so cleverly tied around his characters in the first place."
This description makes me laugh because the chorus-girls, the theatre, the ball and the house-party are but incidents in the larger story of an American, George Bevan, pursuing an heiress, Lady Maude. Maude, however, is in love with a Welshman and her aunt and father are determined to marry her off to her step-brother. Can George possibly prevail?
PG Wodehouse is classically witty and his characters are pithily drawn. I enjoyed this book a lot.
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