The Prince and Betty

This is one of Wodehouse's earliest books. The traces of his particular style of humour are present, but there is a clear lack of crispness to the tale. I definitely enjoyed it, but some parts of it - mostly the newspaper chapters - dragged on and on. Too many incidents - it all tied up in the end, but still it was messy. It pales in comparison to The Small Bachelor and the Bandings stories. But it is a great insight into how P G Wodehouse started out in the field of novel writing. And that practice makes perfect.