The Small Bachelor by P.G. Wodehouse

Its America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of talent. George falls in love with Molly, whose imperious stepmother Mrs Waddington insists hes not the man to marry the stepdaughter of one of New Yorks most fashionable hostesses. Poor George - he doesnt seem to stand a chance. How George eventu Its America during Prohibition and shy young George Finch is setting out as an artist - without the encumbrance of a shred of talent. George falls in love with Molly, whose imperious stepmother Mrs Waddington insists hes not the man to marry the stepdaughter of one of New Yorks most fashionable hostesses. Poor George - he doesnt seem to stand a chance. How George eventually triumphs over the bossy Mrs Waddington makes for a dizzying plot featuring some of Wodehouses most appealing minor characters - Mullett the butler and his light-fingered girlfriend Fanny, J. Hamilton Beamish, author of the dynamic Beamish Booklets, Officer Garroway the poetic policeman, and Sigsbee H. Waddington, the hen-pecked husband who longs for the wide open spaces of the West. Oh, and does Prohibition mean theres no booze? In a Wodehouse novel? Youll have to wait and see...