Jeeves And The Wedding Bells (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
As many of you know, I **adore** PG Wodehouse, and the Jeeves books in specific. These are stories that make me laugh out loud, sometimes so much so that I have to put down the book, giggling myself silly, then slowly recover and resume. To be frank, only "Calvin and Hobbes" and David Sedaris hit my funny bone with such deadly accuracy.Despite some glowing notices, I was trepidatious upon opening this novel, which was approved (thank heavens) by the Wodehouse estate. The ending may be sentimental, but the story is basically pure Woosterian delight. Faulks has emulated Wodehouse, rather than slavishly imitate his forerunner. But somehow he has made magic; there is the undeniable sense of sublime silliness in Faulks' new novel, as in the best of the Jeeves / Wooster canon.The story is suitably baroque, with Our Man Bertie Wooster, for reasons not worth spoiling, finding himself gentleman's gentleman to his own inimitable valet Jeeves, at a country house weekend. There are romantic escapades, nighttime scrapes, timely escapes, and Bertie's customary plans to outwit the unflappable Jeeves. It's all a rummy riot, the very model of a modern major Wooster set-piece. I loved it. So will you. Very enjoyable homage to P.G. Wodehouse's wonderful couple--Jeeves and his hapless, kindhearted "boss" Bertie Wooster. Faulk does a nice job of taking Bertie a bit further in realizing the unfairness of the class differences between the two, but never losing the light-hearted happy touch that characterizes these kinds of novels. Bertie must switch roles with Jeeves (due to some convoluted plot point I've forgotten) for their stay in a country house, which contains the adorable orphan Georgiana Meadows. Will Bertie's loveable thickness cause him to miss out on this paragon of womanhood? Or will he get engaged and then find out "it's not on" as he so often does? As always, Jeeves gets involved to set things right. This was a truly enjoyable romp.
What do You think about Jeeves And The Wedding Bells (2013)?
I loved this book, it was like being transported back to another era.
—SoraSky
Funny and light - an excellent book for a long car trip
—crazeechef
