Hot Water

Hot Water

A P.G. Wodehouse novel<br /> <br /> Chateau Blissac, on its hill above St Roque, is in a setting where every prospect pleases. But it doesn&#39;t please its current occupier, J. Wellington Gedge. Mr Gedge wants none of it - and particularly none of the domineering Mrs Gedge&#39;s imperious wish that he should become American Ambassador to Paris. Instead he pines for the simpler life of California, where men are men and filling stations stand tall.<br /> <br /> Mrs Gedge has powerful allies - including the prohibitionist Senator Opal. But will she get her way? And will the Senator&#39;s delightful daughter Jane get her man?<br /> <br /> In a plot which involves safe-blowers, con men, jewel-thieves and even a Bloomsbury novelist, few are quite as they seem. But the heady atmosphere of France in the 1930s makes for one of Wodehouse&#39;s most delightful comedies.