Mike at Wrykyn

This charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty describes the adventures of Mike Jackson at boarding school as he makes his way up the sporting ladder to the first eleven. The young P. G. Wodehouse evokes the peaceful, prosperous world of middle-class England before the Great War, a place where rich men hire private cricket professionals to coach their sons at home, and little seems to matter at school except the publishing of team lists and the taking of tea. But such is the novelist's skill that he can make excitement from the small-scale dramas of teenage life, and interest even the most unsporting reader in the cricket matches he describes so lovingly. A curiosity for those who know only the Wodehouse of "Blandings" and "Piccadilly", but a delightful one.

ISBN 1841591777   Pages 208 ISBN13 9781841591773 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 298 Publisher Everyman   Published in London Imprint Everyman's Library   Height (mm) 190 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 135 Publication date 30 Sep 2011   Spine width (mm) 20 DEWEY 823.912   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

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