There’s a Jeeves and Wooster story about eggs and how if someone were really ready to give it a go they could start with one set of hens, and then their egg business would have to grow exponentially. This is the novel Wodehouse wrote some 15 years earlier (his first novel, apparently) that really gave this idea a go. This book begins with Jeremy Garnet, a writer of light fiction (and of middling talent), in a funk. He comes across a friend, Ukridge, who breaks […]