Summer Lightning

By P. G. Wodehouse

Categories: Humor & Entertainment, Literature & Fiction

In Summer Lightning (1929; U.S. title Fish Preferred), P. G. Wodehouse returned to Blandings Castle. Lord Emsworth's prize pig, the Empress of Blandings, disappears, and his brother Galahad Threepwood is writing memoirs full of scandal about old friends. Amid suspicion of everyone at the castle, Galahad also takes up the cause of his nephew Ronnie Fish, who wants to marry a chorus girl, Sue Brown, against the family's wishes.

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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.”