Love Among the Chickens

The absurd story of Jeremy Garnet, a writer and a former chicken farmer named Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge. Garnet encounters Ukridge for the first time in a long time and becomes entangled in Ukridge's fledgling chicken farm. While struggling with the farm and Ukridge's peculiar business practices, Garnet quickly develops feelings for a girl who lives close to the estate. Love Among the Chickens , which P.G. Wodehouse wrote when he was 25 years old, was the book that started his career as a novelist and gave the world its first glimpse of Ukridge, one of his most remarkable inventions. The introduction by Robert McCrum demonstrates how many of the themes that Wodehouse would later adopt can be found in this fascinating early book. The 1906 original is used in this edition, which was revised in 1920 by Wodehouse. "e;If there is one thing I dislike, it is the man who tries to air his grievances when I wish to air mine."e; P.G. Wodehouse (Love Among the Chickens)