Love Among the Chickens

by P.G. Wodehouse
Category: "Fiction - Humorous Novels"
Pages:160
Year of Publication:1906
Date Read:01/27/2008
Notes:The novel is written in the first person, from the point of view of one Jeremy Garnet, an author and an old friend of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. Seeing Ukridge for the first time in years, with a new wife in tow, Garnet finds himself dragged along on holiday to Ukridge's newly-started chicken farm in Dorset. From then on the novel intertwines Garnet's difficult wooing of a girl living nearby with the struggles of the farm, and the neighbourhood, to cope with Ukridge's bizarre business ideas and methods.
My Rating: 7

Reviews for Love Among the Chickens

Review - Love Among the Chickens

A bit weak plotwise, but with the usual Wodehouse package of ridiculous situations. I found the dumping-the-old-man-out-of-the-boat bit a little damaging to the hero's character, and the leading lady needed a bit of fleshing out. But all-in-all it was a quick, enjoyable read.
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