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Summer Moonshine

By: P. G. Wodehouse
Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil
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Summary

Poor Sir Buckstone Abbott, Bart! Not only does he own in Walsingford Hall, one of the least attractive stately homes in the country, but he has to take in paying guests to keep it upright. So when it seems a rich (if not very nice) continental princess might buy it, he's overjoyed - particularly as he's being rooked by the publisher of his sporting memoirs. His daughter Jane comes up trumps in the company of the playwright Joe - but not before engagements are broken and fortunes lost and made.
©2006 The Trustees of the Wodehouse Estate (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
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Summer Moonshine made me Laugh Out Loud

Jonathan Cecil complements P G Woodhouse’s writing as no other narrator can; his characterisation, tempo and interpretation is masterful. The story, as it unfolded, made me laugh out loud.

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just one point

it's Wodehouse so it's brilliant.
it's narrated by Jonathon Cecil so it's brilliant.

but Audible, if you're going to pass an old BBC CD recording off as your own exclusive, maybe remove the "end of disc x" "disc y" statements from the middle of chapters...

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Classic Wodehouse.

Classic Wodehouse and Cecil too. He takes you right there with them, faultless narrative by a master.

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Jonathan Cecil - the master narrator

Took a while to get into it, but it eventually grew on me.
The narrator was as usual wonderful, bringing the characters to light.

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Thoroughly enjoyable Wodehousian silliness

Well this is splendid and jolly stuff. If you enjoy Jeeves & Wooster, you can't fail to enjoy this. It's a daft story of love, the upper classes down on their luck, set in the kind of English summer when it never rains and with a smattering of somewhat caricatured American. It also has a lovely family dynamic between the leading lady and her parents, and although it's obviously ridiculously old fashioned and un-woke, it's very well read and thoroughly enjoyable.
I've dropped it one star because of 2 phrases that really need to be edited. I assume it's an old recording - the quality is perfect and the only reason I notice is because it twice drops the n-bomb (I can't quite remember the 2 phrases but something like "hiding like a n*** in the woodshed") which is completely unacceptable nowadays and I'm sure could be edited out. Other than that it's excellent.

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What joy

Not a Blandings or a Jeeves tale but glorious nonetheless and Jonathan Cecil is the cherry on the cake, brilliant characterisations give depth to the Wodehouse linguistic magic, there could not be a happier mix to delight my demanding palette.

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Classic Wodehouse

Light, entertaining, a touch of farce, where all's well. Those that deserve a happy ending get one

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Spoilt by casual racism

The only thing that spoilt the pleasure of listening was the inclusion twice if the 'n' word in the phrase, 'n..... at an election'. Obviously of its time, but surely Audible has a duty of responsibility to check for its own content.

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Charming typical wodehouse

Lighthearted, full of the slightly crazy characters and situations that we have come to expect. Delightful.

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One of my absolute favourites of Wodehouse

It is so funny and warm, even some real romance. It is always a delight to read Wodehouse but tais gives me a warm feeling in my heart.

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