I just finished Their Mutual Child (US, 1919)/The Coming of Bill (UK, 1920), which according to Goodreads "is the nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious novel." Thank goodness he never got nearer! It wasn't terrible; this is Wodehouse, after all, and sometimes the funny came through in spite of himself. But even Frederick Davidson, my favorite Wodehouse narrator, couldn't save it.
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