Welcome to Litsy!

Another stand-alone gem by Wodehouse. Sally is a nice girl of modest means who lives in a New York boarding house and has to work for a living. She suddenly inherits money, and her world changes. Again (see my previous review), hijinx ensue on both sides of the Atlantic, but true love triumphs in the end. A rags to riches to rags story with a happy ending. I loved sparky Sally and her practical approach to life.

I always find PG Wodehouse so comforting when I‘m busy and stressed, and this was no exception. I‘d be lying if I said it was as good or as funny as the Jeeves and Wooster books but I still got a lot out of reading it and had a great time.

Sally, a young woman leaves a bad family situation to build her life. Except, it‘s the 1920‘s and she has no building blocks. Instead her life is shaped by the lives of her lovers. Kind of fun to imagine that this is the grownup story of a playmate of Francie from “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” that we never met. The novel uses a curiously dual sad & joyful tone to portray a rather ordinary life. Neither colorful or dull, but pleasantly pastel!

Fun book. Not quite as smooth as the Jeeves and Wooster books, but fun.