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Book review: Jeeves and the Wedding Bells: A Homage to PG Wodehouse, by Sebastian Faulks

By Roger Hall In Books

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12th December, 2013
Jeeves shimmied into my lair at the crack of ten. As well as the reviving cuppa, he placed a package beside the bed. “A book, sir,” he murmured. “For me!” I cried. Books are Jeeves’s thing. I’ve seen the fellow read without moving his lips. “It needs to be brought to your attention, sir. Its title is Jeeves and the Wedding Bells.” “How can this be? Plum died a few decades past. An impostor?” “Not exactly, sir. A Mr Sebastian Faulks. He is not unknown in the literary world.” “Spill the beans,” I cried (not that the feller ever would). ...

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