Summer Lightning

✍ Scribed by P. G. Wodehouse

• Book ID: 107741530
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 166 KB
• Series: Blandings 4
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

[Blandings] is an entire world unto itself and, one senses, Wodehouse pours into it his deepest feelings for England.Stephen FryThe Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoira tell-all that could destroy polite society. Everyone wants this manuscript gone, particularly Lord Emsworths neighbor Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, who would do anything to keep the story of the prawns buried in the past. But the memoir isnt the only problem. A chorus girl disguised as an heiress, a double-dealing detective, a stolen prize-winning sow, and a crazy ex-secretary are only a few of the complications that must be dealt with before everyone can have their happy ending.

The fall brings season brings three more antic selections from comic genius, P. G. Wodehouse. In Summer Lightning, the Honorable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoirs and everyone dives for cover; meanwhile, Lord Emsworth's prize pig has been stolen, and the castle is abuzz with imposters all pretending to be one another.

From the Back Cover

A Blandings novel

You dont analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour. Stephen Fry

The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared.

Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty from Galahad Threepwood (who is writing memoirs so scandalous they will rock the aristocracy to its foundations) to the Efficient Baxter, chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Clarences arch-rival, and his passion for prize-winning pigs?

With the castle full of deceptions and impostors, will Galahad's memoirs ever see the light of day? And will the Empress be returned...?