Love Among the Chickens (Paperback)

from Pferdina

Garnet moves to the country with his old friend Ukridge and the new Mrs. Ukridge to start a chicken farm. Ukridge's business model appears to rest on buying everything on credit, which goes as well as you'd expect. Meanwhile, Garnet is falling in love with the girl down the road, who has a cantan...

from leandrod

Loved it so much. Did not realise I was reading a first edition text, so will have to come back someday and get the second... also available in the public domain.

from SueinCyprus

The story is narrated by a struggling writer called Jeremy Garnet, who used to work with a larger-than-life and entrepreneurial character known as Ukridge. Jeremy is persuaded, against his better judgement, to go and stay with Ukridge and his unassuming wife Millie, and to assist in their new pro...

from m.belljackson

With all the great reviews around, a P.G. Wodehouse book should have been a lot more fun to read. Instead, after the first few witty pages, it was tedious and predictable, flattening out into the never-ending stupidity of Ukridge's chicken farming methods, dead chickens, and an unfunny near drown...

from Praj05

Stanley Ukridge is no Jeeves, His eccentricities make others grieve. Garnet unlike Corky, Is dull and dorky. Phyllis is the one he loves, Woos her like a lonesome dove. Creditors swarm the farms, Rummaging chickens with their arms. Amongst a mass of satiric bliss, It is acceptable to give this a ...