Cover art for The Girl in Blue
Published
Everyman, January 2024
ISBN
9781841591711
Format
Hardcover, 208 pages
Dimensions
19cm × 13.5cm × 2.3cm

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This charming novel is one of Wodehouse's best late works.

The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering country house, an overweight solicitor, a fortune-hunter, a butler who isn't a butler, an American corporate lawyer and his kleptomaniac sister; but the heart of the story - in every sense - concerns Jerry West and his determined pursuit of air hostess Jane Hunnicutt, the eponymous Girl in Blue. When Jane unexpectedly becomes a millionairess, Jerry despairs of wooing her, but the sun never goes behind a cloud for long in Wodehouse- Jerry gets his Jane in the end, but only after a series of trials which raise the comic stakes to the author's highest level.

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