Jeeves Lives, as New Author Picks Up Where Wodehouse Left Off
P.G. Wodehouse in 1971.
The British novelist Sebastian Faulks, who will be picking up Wodehouse's characters Wooster and Jeeves.
Nearly 40 years after the last book by the comic novelist P.G. Wodehouse, the aristocratic Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet, Jeeves, are making a comeback.
The British novelist Sebastian Faulks, author of “Birdsong" and a best-selling James Bond book, “Devil May Care," has written “Jeeves and the Wedding Bells," to be released in the United States on Nov. 5, St. Martin’s Press said on Tuesday. Wodehouse, who died in 1975, chronicled the lives of Wooster and Jeeves in 11 novels and 35 stories.
The new book chronicles their latest adventure in a “comic work worthy of the master himself,†St. Martin’s said in a statement. The Wodehouse estate approved of the new book and the selection of Mr. Faulks, who is a longtime fan of Wodehouse.
