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Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

By: Ben Schott
Narrated by: Daniel Ings
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The Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the warpath. Oh, and His Majesty's Government needs a favour. I say - it's a good thing Bertie's back! One man - and his Gentleman's Personal Gentleman - valiantly set out to save the Drones, thwart Spode and nobly assist His Majesty's Government.

From the mean streets of Mayfair to the scheming spires of Cambridge we encounter a joyous cast of characters: chiselling painters and criminal bookies, eccentric philosophers and dodgy clairvoyants, appalling poets and pocket dictators, vexatious aunts and their vicious hounds. Replete with a Times crossword and classic Schottian endnotes, you have access to the most blissfully entertaining means to while away an idle hour. P.G. Wodehouse has long been a panacea for the woes of the world...have we ever needed a new Jeeves and Wooster more?

©2020 Ben Schott (P)2020 Penguin Audio Classics Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy

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Thank you to Ben Schott and Daniel Ings for giving us this slightly more human Bertie! I am a die hard Wodehouse fan, but his stories as read by the great Jonathan Cecil or Martin Jarvis are quite cartoon like. This pairing is more realistic, and just as funny. One is not better than the other, they are both hugely entertaining in their own way.

Thank you!

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A superb recreation and continuation of PG Wodehouse’s characters and situations. Often laugh out loud funny.

The narrator is generally very good but sadly no-one had told him the correct pronunciation of the names of various Oxbridge colleges. Magdalen is pronounced “maudlin” - a single forgivable mistake. More seriously, he endlessly mispronounces Caius as if it were a Roman senator not, correctly, “keys”. That mistake utterly mangles a good joke half way through.

Surely someone in the editorial process should have spotted this?

Great story, well read but with errors

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ok, colours to the mast. The book is a delight. The author is clearly possessed of Wodehousian spirit. I hope he writes many more. I just wish I'd read it because the narrator... grrr. Look, his voice and pacing is grand he's nailed Jeeves but why did no one think to tell him Caius is pronounced keys? And Magdelene pronounced Maudlin? I don't know how many times I shuddered. Mind you I laughed out loud when the author actually makes the obvious joke in the mispronunciation in an exchange between Bertie and his ex Oxford valet and the narrator utterly flattens it. Please get in their and edit it out for the sake of ensuring the author gets the 5 stars he deserves.

a delightful book with an especially annoying faul

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The story is great but the narrator, Daniel Ings just somehow does not give it the zestful ping of James Lance who narrated King of Clubs.
He is probably a very good narrator but he just felt a bit wrong for the fast pace of the story, also seemed difficult sometimes giving different voices to characters making it hard to distinguish between them.
Hope Ben Schott writes many more.

Great story, full of fun and quirkiness

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Another fabulous slice of Jeeves and Wooster! Highly recommend both the story and narrator, but be warned that this is the second of a series so you really need to listen to Jeeves and the King of Clubs first.

Just wonderful!

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