![]() It was drooping now, striking a sinister note. When all is well, it turns up at the end like a sergeant-major’s. This wizard of the cooking stove is a tubby little man with a moustache of the outsize or soup-strainer type, and you can generally take a line through it as to the state of his emotions. Most atypically, Bertie causes the resignation of Aunt Dahlia’s fabulous French chef Anatole, who makes a rare appearance: When Bertie Wooster arrives to Brinkley Court without Jeeves to help him, he is beset not by one, two or three problems but by an unprecedented five, at my count. ![]() ![]() The cover of my Folio Society edition of Right Ho, Jeeves Anatole, described And at the sight of it, I realised that another of our domestic crises had arrived, another of those unfortunate clashes of will between two strong men, and that Bertram, unless he remembered his fighting ancestors, and stood up for his rights, was about to be put upon. This time, the offending sartorial item to which Jeeves objects is a white mess jacket with brass buttons: Right Ho Jeeves opens with Bertie once more estranged from the genius of Jeeves. What better book to read at Christmas than Right Ho, Jeeves – a festive winter wonderland of Wodehouse, a rich Christmas pudding of Plum? A white mess jacket ![]() Right Ho Jeeves is based around Bertie Wooster becoming estranged from Jeeves and having to fend for himself. ![]()
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