French Leave by P.G.Wodehouse ( exquisite leather binding)

Published by Penguin, 1992, hardcover, illustrated, index, 206 pages, condition: as new.

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE, was a comic writer who enjoyed enormous popular success during a career of more than seventy years and continues to be widely read over 40 years after his death. Despite the political and social upheavals that occurred during his life, much of which was spent in France and the United States, Wodehouse's main canvas remained that of prewar English upper-class society, reflecting his birth, education, and youthful writing career.

Terry and Jo Trent fly from the chicken farm in Bensonburg to the flesh pots of France, where even the eagle eye of elder sister Kate cannot prevent muddle, mismatch, and mayhem.