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 AliceAnna

Very cute. I believe this was Wodehouse's first real work beyond his school pieces (which I found rather dreary at times with the constant description of sports being played). This one was away from school and was funny and sometimes outrageous and, at its core, very sweet. I'm looking forward to...

from sriddell

Not quite up to Wodehouse's later works, this was his first novel and still pretty funny. Two gentlemen start an ill-advised chicken farm and hilarity ensues. One of the two men falls in love with a young woman, but falls disastrously in and out of favor with her father. The stories would have ...