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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 war-path. 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 clairvoyantes, appalling poets and pocket dictators, vexatious aunts and their vicious hounds.

Replete with a Times crossword, and classic Schottian endnotes, you hold in your hands 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?

'Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness.' Evening Standard BOOKS OF THE YEAR on Jeeves and the King of Clubs

© Ben Schott 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020

 Classics Literature & Fiction Satire Comedy

Critic reviews

[Schott] captures the style of the Master very well indeed. He follows Jeeves And The King of Clubs with a glorious romp . . . a splendidly jolly read.
Once again pastiche perfect. (Ian Sansom’s book of the year)
Captures PG Wodehouse's style very well.
A combination of the old and new, done with panache and wit . . . Schott's new novel is a hugely welcome one, and deserves to soar up the Christmas bestseller lists.
Ben Schott's second Jeeves and Wooster book proves an enjoyable continuation of PG Wodehouse's classic characters. Schott writes in a distinctive style that is somewhere between homage and postmodern response, and his story . . . is more eventful and action-packed than Wodehouse would ever have countenanced. And it ends on a splendid cliff hanger.
This homage to P.G. Wodehouse is so good that a blind reading (i.e. a genuine 'Plum' versus Schott's pastiche) would be a tricky call. Everything is in its place: Jeeves shimmers, aunts scheme, Drones drone. Even the style is spot-on: the erudition of Schott's various Miscellanies finds expression as similes and quotations of hilarious ingenuity . . . the sheer luxury, wealth and self-assurance of Bertie's world is brilliantly evoked with all its enviable light-heartedness intact. A masterpiece in every sense.
In times of stress, there's nothing like an outing with Bertram Wilberforce Wooster. A very creditable and uplifting homage to the master.
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I enjoyed the second of this series but it lacked the sparkle of the first. The plot got too convoluted and bogged down and the change of narrator was jarring especially because he just wasn't, imo, fitted for this style of novel. James Lance, who narrated the first in the series has great comic timing and could really milk the hilarious dialogue to produce some laugh-out-loud moments. Daniel Ings wasn't able to produce distinctive voices for different characters and made Bertie sound rather world-weary and cynical whereas one of the defining traits of Bertie is his relative naiveté. Finally, we're left hanging for a part three which has never emerged.

Enjoyable enough part two

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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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I thoroughly enjoyed the story and think Schott carries on the Jeeves saga well. The narrator really hurts the performance by not knowing the correct pronunciation - Fotheringay as Fungy perhaps understandable (not to a Wodehousian), but Glawsester instead of Gloucester is jarring. These happen every 20-30 mins and stick in the craw.

Narrator needs a lesson

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Like this alternative story line. Same loveable but bonkers characters etc. preferred the narration by the individual who did the first book and having just listened to that and happily stumbled upon a sequel the differing narrator spoiled plot a bit for me

Another welcome J&W story

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