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A Jeeves and Wooster novel Gussie Fink-Nottle-s knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly stampede for great open spaces. Even with Madeline Bassett, who feels that the stars are God-s daisy chain, his tongue is tied in reef-knots. And his chum Tuppy Glossop isn-t getting on much better with Madeline-s delectable friend Angela. With so many broken hearts lying about him, Bertie Wooster can-t sit idly by. The happiness of a pal - two pals, in fact - is at stake. But somehow Bertie-s best-laid plans land everyone in the soup, and so it-s just as well that Jeeves is ever at hand to apply his bulging brains to the problems of young love. About The Author The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves, Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P.G. Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer, contributing to a variety of periodicals including Punch and the Globe. He married in 1914. As well as his novels and short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies with Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, and at one stage had five musicals running simultaneously on Broadway. His time in Hollywood also provided much source material for fiction. At the age of 93, in the New Year-s Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.