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Book Review of Barmy in Wonderland

Barmy in Wonderland
Barmy in Wonderland
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Book Type: Paperback
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Back of book: Mervy Potter, filmland's biggest heart-throb since Valentino, urged Cyril Fothingay-Phipps, known to his friends as Barmy, to invest his modest fortune in a stage production of Sacrifice. but not everybody viewed the enterprise with such optimism. Indeed, once critic condemned it in such vigorous terms that, had it not been for the delectable Miss Dinty Moore, Barmy might well have given up his chance of becoming a theatrical tycoon. But love is a powerful spur. Barmy plunged, and so demonstrated that the affairs of the heart and high finance can be made to combine in sweet and opulent harmony.

I say: Add to this the fact that it isside-splittingly funny, curlicued in a plot so involved you'll wonder how th author kept it straight, and full of the most delightfully wacky (and very human) characters. I love Wodehouse stories.