Fish Preferred

A butler who knows too much. A memoir that could destroy polite society. A prize-winning sow who holds the key to everything. And the third full-length romp through the glorious chaos of Blandings Castle.

P.G. Wodehouse’s third Blandings novel is a masterpiece of comic mayhem—a story about memoirs, pigs, false teeth, and the one man who can untangle it all, provided no one asks him to do anything too strenuous.

The Honourable Galahad Threepwood, Lord Emsworth’s scandalous younger brother, has decided to write his memoirs. The book contains every secret, every indiscretion, every prawn-related disaster from a lifetime of youthful folly. Everyone wants the manuscript destroyed—particularly Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Lord Emsworth’s neighbor and rival, who would do anything to keep the story of the prawns buried in the past. But the memoir isn’t the only problem. A chorus girl disguised as an heiress. A double-dealing detective. A stolen prize-winning sow. A crazy ex-secretary named Baxter who throws flowerpots through windows at three in the morning. And Lord Emsworth himself, who only wants to be left alone with his pig, the Empress of Blandings, and could not care less about the fate of English civilization.

This is Wodehouse at his most gloriously silly and structurally perfect: a novel in which every plot thread weaves into every other, every sentence sparkles, and every reader finishes with a smile. Fish Preferred (published in the UK as Summer Lightning) is pure Wodehouse—and pure joy.

• First published in the US in 1929 as Fish Preferred and in the UK as Summer Lightning

• The third full-length Blandings novel, following Something Fresh (1915) and Leave It to Psmith(1923)

• Features the first appearance of the Empress of Blandings, Lord Emsworth’s prize-winning sow, who would become a recurring character in the series

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A beautifully crafted edition for your shelf, your device, or your ears, or the perfect gift for anyone who knows that the best comedies are the ones that leave you feeling lighter than air.

About the Author

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) was an English author and one of the most celebrated comic writers of the twentieth century. Born in Guildford, Surrey, he was educated at Dulwich College and worked briefly in a bank before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote more than ninety books, including the Jeeves and Wooster series, the Blandings Castle series, and numerous short stories, plays, and musicals. Fish Preferred was published in 1929, during what many critics consider Wodehouse’s golden period. The novel was serialized in The Pall Mall Magazine (UK) and Collier’s(US) before being published in book form. It was adapted into a 1933 film titled Summer Lightning and later into a BBC radio drama. Wodehouse moved to the United States in the 1930s and became an American citizen. He was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for Humor and was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire shortly before his death. He is buried in Remsenburg, New York.