Joy in the Morning

Bertie Wooster gets married. Jeeves disapproves. And a small English village is never the same.

P.G. Wodehouse’s eighth Jeeves novel is a masterpiece of comic chaos—a story about a wedding that cannot happen, a stepfather who will not cooperate, and the one man who can fix everything, provided his master does not accidentally set fire to anything.

Bertie Wooster, in a moment of madness, has agreed to marry the formidable Florence Craye, a woman who believes in improving his mind. He has also agreed to travel to the village of Steeple Bumpleigh to ask her stepfather’s permission. The stepfather is Lord Worplesdon, a man famous for throwing a bread roll at a bishop and for once chasing Bertie with a hunting crop. Bertie arrives. Chaos ensues. Florence’s former fiancé, Stilton Cheesewright, a policeman built like a gorilla, is also in the village. A manuscript goes missing. A fire starts in a shed. Jeeves, who has been watching from the wings, must untangle a plot involving false identities, stolen documents, and the simple fact that Bertie Wooster should never, ever, be left alone.

This is Wodehouse at his most perfectly plotted and joyously funny: a novel in which every sentence sparkles, every character shines, and every reader finishes with a smile. Joy in the Morning is widely considered one of the finest Jeeves novels.

• First published in 1946, the eighth Jeeves novel

• Set in the fictional village of Steeple Bumpleigh, home to the formidable Lord Worplesdon and his terrifying daughter Florence Craye

• Contains some of Wodehouse’s most memorable set pieces, including the famous burning shed scene

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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. Joy in the Morning was published in 1946, following Wodehouse’s controversial wartime broadcasts from Germany. The novel was dedicated to his wife, Ethel, and marked a return to form after the difficulties of the war years. 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.