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The Luck of the Bodkins
The Monty Bodkin Series (Related to this series)
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrator
- Jonathan Cecil
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 1 October 2012
- Run Time
- 9 hours 5 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Humorous fiction
What to expect
Things on board the RMS Atlantic are terribly, terribly complicated. Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet who definitely adores Ambrose, who thinks that she has a thing for his brother, Reggie, who is struck by Mabel Spence, sister-in-law of Ikey Llewellyn (movie mogul, Ambrose's prospective employer, and reluctant smuggler), but hasn't the means to marry her. With the well-meaning but unhelpful ship's steward, Albert Peasemarch, and a toy mouse with a screw-top head thrown in for good measure, it will, indeed, take the luck of the Bodkins to sort it all out.
Critics Review
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“Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already.”
Lynne Truss
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“It’s dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I’ll risk it with him.”
John Humphrys
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“For as long as I’m immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it’s possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day.”
Marian Keyes
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“Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists.”
Susan Hill
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Details
- Author
- P. G. Wodehouse
- Narrator
- Jonathan Cecil
- Duration
- 9 hours 5 minutes
- Release Date
- 1 October 2012
- ISBN
- 9781620642948
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- Humorous fiction
Synopsis
Things on board the RMS Atlantic are terribly, terribly complicated. Monty Bodkin loves Gertrude, who thinks he likes Lotus Blossom, a starlet who definitely adores Ambrose, who thinks that she has a thing for his brother, Reggie, who is struck by Mabel Spence, sister-in-law of Ikey Llewellyn (movie mogul, Ambrose's prospective employer, and reluctant smuggler), but hasn't the means to marry her. With the well-meaning but unhelpful ship's steward, Albert Peasemarch, and a toy mouse with a screw-top head thrown in for good measure, it will, indeed, take the luck of the Bodkins to sort it all out.
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