- Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New impression edition (9 Dec 1976)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140025472
- ISBN-13: 978-0140025477
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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The hideous Walsingford Hall is home to an odd assortment of coves and an even odder assortment of people. The vile premises belong to Sir Buckstone, who is in a little financial difficulty. So for a little monetary help, he puts a roof over the heads of a group of lunatics. Is there no end to the confusion?
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If you've finished the Jeeves and Blandings sagas and are wondering which of Plum's works to plumb next, you could do worse than this one-off offering. The twists and turns of the usual comedy of country house errors are many and well-engineered, and the behaviour of the protagonists is dictated more by logic than is customary amongst Wodehouse characters (though that isn't saying much). And some of said protagonists exhibit buckets of charm: Joe Vanringham is a sort of American Psmith, though not quite so orotund of speech; the glacial Miss Whittaker has a tiptilted nose, so you know she's really a good egg; the louche and cowardly Adrian Peake's tribulations cannot fail to move the reader's heart... You may miss Bertie Wooster's mangled literary allusions, and Wodehouse's tendency to portray the labouring classes as something akin to Morlochs might cause you to wince briefly, but you can rest assured that, as the catatonically serene Lady Abbott repeatedly prophesies, everything will turn out all right in the end.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Sir Buckstone desperately wants to sell his ugly Victorian pile to a wealthy princess. In the meantime he has to make do with taking in paying guests, one of whom loves his secretary and whose brother loves his daughter. Except that his daughter loves penniless Adrian Peake, who just happens to be engaged to the princess! And, they all come to stay. Thus you have the bare bones of a typical Wodehouse tale of intringue and comedy of errors. As usual, the reader is left feeling uplifted by that gloriously light and effervescent Wodehouse style. Summer Moonshine will warm the spirit whatever the weather.
4 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
`Summer Moonshine' is one of Wodehouse's most underrated novels. Without a connection to any of the Wodehouse Saga's it has a tendency to be overlooked, which is a shame because as Joe Vanringham would put it, it's a `corker'.
To summarise a Wodehouse plot is a bit like vivisection, the whole is greater and certainly more animated than the sum of its constituent parts. However, in brief, Joe Vanringham is in love with Sir Buckstone's daughter Jane who has had the misfortune of becoming engaged to fortune hunter Adrian Peake who is also engaged to Joe's stepmother Princess Dwornitzchek, basing his fortune hunting on a system of probability. Joe's brother has recently broken his engagement to Sir Buckstone's secretary Miss Whittaker whom is now suing him for breach of promise with Sir Buckstone's brother in law being employed to serve him with the notice.
Sir Buckstone's country seat, Walsingford Hall, is the setting for the novel which has been taking in paying guests, but not to populate the novel with characters as these are all related to the two central families. The paying guests get little or no lines or business to justify there existence.
Despite this underused mechanical aid the novel is of the finest that Wodehouse ever wrote and I ever read.
To summarise a Wodehouse plot is a bit like vivisection, the whole is greater and certainly more animated than the sum of its constituent parts. However, in brief, Joe Vanringham is in love with Sir Buckstone's daughter Jane who has had the misfortune of becoming engaged to fortune hunter Adrian Peake who is also engaged to Joe's stepmother Princess Dwornitzchek, basing his fortune hunting on a system of probability. Joe's brother has recently broken his engagement to Sir Buckstone's secretary Miss Whittaker whom is now suing him for breach of promise with Sir Buckstone's brother in law being employed to serve him with the notice.
Sir Buckstone's country seat, Walsingford Hall, is the setting for the novel which has been taking in paying guests, but not to populate the novel with characters as these are all related to the two central families. The paying guests get little or no lines or business to justify there existence.
Despite this underused mechanical aid the novel is of the finest that Wodehouse ever wrote and I ever read.
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Light As Summer Rain
Jane is secretly engaged to the wet Adrian Peake. She lives at Walsingford Hall with her father Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart., and his paying-guests. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Paul D
Summer Moonshine - Good fun
Summer Moonshine was my first experience with PG Wodehouse but it won't be my last. Perfect reading for holidays or any time you need to unwind. I highly recomend it.
Published 21 months ago by Mat Gomà
Very funny!
"Summer Moonshine" is one of Wodehouse's stand alone novels i.e. its not tied into other novels like the Blandings novels. Read more
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