Up until now we have only known Bertie Wooster in his midtwenties;
this is his first whole life biography, told in ten
short stories at seven year intervals. Thus we first meet
Bertie aged seven, in 1907, at Malvern House prep school,
then follow him to Eton aged fourteen and Oxford at twenty
one. We meet Jeeves when Bertie is twenty-eight and then
they go their separate ways: Jeeves to the Royal Household
at Buckingham Palace and Bertie to the French Riviera at its
most glamorous, causing havoc with Somerset Maugham and
Alfred Hitchcock, before being accidentally captured by the
Italian fascists and spending Christmas Day 1942 with
Mussolini.
