Cocktail Time by P.G. Wodehouse

Published by Arrow, 2008, softcover, 255 pages, condition: new.

If Lord Ickenham had not succumbed to the temptation to dislodge the hat of Beefy Bastable, the irascible QC, with a well-aimed Brazil nut, the latter's famous legal mind might never have been stimulated to literature. But the incident provoked Beefy to write his exposé of the younger generation, a novel so shocking that it caused endless repercussions for its hapless author, and sparked off a whole series of outrageous misunderstandings that it would take the inventive talents of Lord Ickenham himself to resolve.

Yes, Im still stuck in a Wodehousian well. You dont have to send a SOS, Ill muddle through, giggling all the while. Cocktail Time was very cute and Uncle Fred is in my top three favourite Wodehouse characters. (The other two arent a surprise to anyone, though my fourth and fifth are Lord Emsworth and either The Empress of Blandings or Montague Bodkin). I enjoyed this story, and may have enjoyed it even more if I had read it before Uncle Dynamite. That one was hard to follow-up. I feel slightly wistful that Ive read all the Uncle Fred and Jeeves stories, but I dont feel sad because Wodehouse is infinitely rereadable.