This is a classic novel about Uncle Fred, the Earl of Ickenham by P.G. Wodehouse, the great comic writer of the 20th century. Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So his jape of using a catapult to ping a silk top hat off his grumpy half-brother-in-law is nothing out of the ordinary - but the consequences abound with possibilities. "A cavalcade of perfect joy". (Caitlin Moran). "Sunlit perfection...Bask in its warmth and splendour". (Stephen Fry). "The best English comic novelist of the century." (Sebastian Faulks). "The greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness". (Julian Fellowes).