
A Jeeves & Wooster novel Gussie Fink-Nottle's knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled Drop him in a pond of newts & his behaviour will be exemplary but introduce him to a girl & watch him turn pink yammer & suddenly stampede for great open spaces Even with Madeline Bassett who feels that the stars are God's daisy chain his tongue is tied in reef-knots & his chum Tuppy Glossop isn't getting on much better with Madeline's delectable friend Angela With so many broken hearts lying about him Bertie Wooster can't sit idly by The happiness of a pal
- two pals in fact
- is at stake But somehow Bertie's best-laid plans land everyone in the soup & so it's just as well that Jeeves is ever at hand to apply his bulging brains to the problems of young love Along with The Code of the Woosters Right Ho Jeeves is considered by many his finest comic novel
- & perhaps the finest in the English language