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Summer Moonshine (Paperback)

by P.G. Wodehouse (Author)
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  • 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: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 695,747 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Joe Vanringham hankers after Jane Abbott, who wants Adrian Peake, who is engaged to Joe's stepmother, a formidable, foreign princess, who is the only possible buyer for Sir Buckstone Abbott's hideous ancestral home in Berkshire. So who can win what?

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Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford Hall one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich (if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he’s overjoyed – particularly as he’s being rooked by the publisher of his sporting memoirs. His daughter Jane comes up trumps in the company of the playwright Joe – but not before engagements are broken and fortunes lost and made. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Summer Moonshine is the Finest Spirit., 20 Jan 2008
This review is from: Summer Moonshine (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.
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