Brilliant

Perfect listening for lazy days in a heatwave. A (shortish) joy from start to finish.

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Excellent, as usual.

I believe PG Wodehouse died writing this book so it is the end of an era, it's certainly the past Jeeves book written by him.
A great story with the return of Plank and Delia, who are always great and worth reading/listening about on their own.
Excellent reading and will be revisiting it again.

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Just what you would expect.

I am a great fan of PG Wwoodhouse, but prefer his Blanding's Castle series. However, this one of Jeeves & Wooster is one of my favourite.
The narrator did a brilliant job.

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Another good yarn from the same J&W world

Another fun yarn spun by Wodehouse involving new and old characters in the rural setting and Wooster getting into his usual scrapes. Nothing new brought to the J&W universe but great entertaining fun nonetheless.

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Still good

it turns out this was PG's last novel but still as good as the others.

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The Maiden Eggesford horror…

When Bertie Wooster wakes one morning to find he has developed pink spots on his chest, his doctor orders him off to the country to rest. Aunt Dahlia finds him a little cottage, Wee Nooke, in the village of Maiden Eggesford, where she herself is visiting at Eggesford Hall. Needless to say, idyllic though the setting is, there’s no rest to be found for poor Bertie! Not only does Aunt Dahlia want him to help her nobble a horse in the big local race, but old flame Vanessa Cook has decided that she will marry Bertie, much to his horror. Not only is she the type of girl who expects him to give up smoking and cocktails, but she also feels he would be improved by reading more poetry. And Orlo Porter, who loves Vanessa and has been spurned by her, is on the warpath.

“Lord Chesterfield said that since he had had the full use of his reason nobody had heard him laugh. I don't suppose you have read Lord Chesterfield's 'Letters To His Son'?
...Well, of course I hadn't. Bertram Wooster does not read other people's letters. If I were employed in the post office I wouldn't even read the postcards.”

This was the last novel PG Wodehouse finished before his death, and it’s in the nature of a reprise of all his greatest hits. All the plots in the Jeeves and Wooster books are fundamentally the same, and that’s a large part of their charm. You know exactly what to expect and Wodehouse never fails to deliver. He repeats jokes from book to book, and yet they seem fresh every time because he’s such a master of the witty turn of phrase and his use of language is delicious.

“If she ever turned into a werewolf, it would be one of those jolly breezy werewolves whom it is a pleasure to know.”

The books with Aunt Dahlia in them are always my favourites. In this one, she intends to nobble Potato Chip, the racehorse owned by Vanessa’s father, because she has bet her all on Simla, owned by her host at Eggesford Hall. To achieve her aim, she arranges to steal a cat to which Potato Chip has become so deeply attached he refuses to train unless the cat is with him, and of course where better to hide a stolen cat than in Bertie’s cottage! Bertie tries to point out how ungentlemanly nobbling racehorses is, but Aunt Dahlia simply doesn’t see it that way. As Bertie has come to realise, aunts aren’t gentlemen. Mr Cook is on the warpath...

“He was a red-headed chap, and my experience of the red-headed is that you can always expect high blood pressure from them in times of stress. The first Queen Elizabeth had red hair, and look what she did to Mary Queen of Scots.”

Of course, things get progressively more tangled, until the inimitable Jeeves saves the day with his usual display of inspired brilliance. Despite this having been written when Wodehouse was in his nineties, it’s right up there amongst his best. I chuckled my way through it, safe in the knowledge that all would be well. Jonathan Cecil is the perfect narrator for these books, and they are guaranteed to bring sunshine into the greyest day. It’s time they made Wodehouse available on the NHS!

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Well, it’s Wodehouse!

If you need to go into neutral, then ANY Wodehouse novel will do: little discernible plot and a wealth of L.O.L. moments, which are completely down to the author’s wit: he is a wordsmith without compare. You won’t be “improved” your mind won’t be fed, but you will come out entertained. That is, if your taste finds the antics and scrapes of an upper-class, wealthy, hopeless Englishman of the mid-twentieth century at all interesting!

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delightful

Excellent performance gave life to the words! The story is full of humour - especially on anything cat related - most enjoyable.

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Pg Wodehouse perfection

Absolutely fantastic. A masterpiece. The tales of Bertie and Jeeves are wonderful. Bertie teaches us that it is enough to be kind. I have every Jeeves and Wooster narrated by Jonathan Cecil. He reads these perfect stories perfectly and this combination (in my mind) makes the world better. Listen to them all without delay!

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Brilliant, but bittersweet.

A joy with many laughs as we take another trip into the wonderful world of Jeeves and Wooster, even if it doesn't rank amongst the absolute greatest of Bertie's misadventures.

As usual, brilliantly read by Jonathan Cecil.

The bittersweetness arising from the knowledge that this was the last of the Jeeves and Wooster tales. Still a great pleasure.

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