Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

Monty Bodkin, last seen in The Luck of the Bodkins, returns from Hollywood to London in Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (1972; US title The Plot That Thickened). Behind him he leaves his secretary, Sandy Miller, who is quietly in love with him. Monty loves Gertrude Butterwick, a hockey international, whose father insists he hold down a job for a year first. Back in England, his path to the altar proves anything but smooth.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “P. G. Wodehouse. I’ve read almost everything he wrote. He once explained that there were two ways of writing novels. “One is mine, making the thing a sort of musical comedy without music, ignoring real life altogether; the other is going right down deep into life and not caring a damn.” He did the former better than almost anyone.”