Summer Moonshine

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Jonathan Cecil

Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins

Publisher's Summary

Walsingford Hall belongs to Sir Buckstone, who is in a little financial difficulty. So for a little monetary help he puts a roof over the heads of an odd assortment of people.

©2006 The Trustees of the Wodehouse Estate (P)2014 Audible, Inc.

Very funny

This story is a wonderful example of PG Wodehouse silliness. Jonathan Cecil performs it perfectly.
One minor niggle, this is obviously a copy from the CD versions such that it includes the words “end of CD 2” and “start of CD 3” etc at what would be the change point. Come on Audible, this is a simple thing to fix and you should be embarrassed that it’s been left in.
One other point of warning, the book is a product of its time and includes a couple of references to the “N” word in the phrase “sweating like a N...”.

Timeless classic!

What more can one say!
Apart from that the audiobook is worth every penny!
The man was a genius!
McJJ

Classic Wodehouse.

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

Sound quality is poor

Jonathan Cecil is a wonderful narrator but the reading is spoiled by him saying the disks number and the sound quality

wondefull the master at his best made me laugh

wondefull the master at his best made me laugh and smile on the dreary commute to work every day for a month

Charming typical wodehouse

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

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.

Classic Wodehouse

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

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...

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.