About the Book: Mike and Psmith
An early Wodehouse novel, this is both a sporting story and a tale of friendship
between two boys at boarding school. Mike (introduced in the novel "Mike at
Wrykyn") is a seriously good cricketer who forms an unlikely alliance with old
Etonian Psmith (the P is silent) after they both find themselves fish out of
water at a new school, Sedleigh, where they eventually overcome the hostility of
others and their own prejudices to become stars. Even readers uninterested in
cricket are likely to be gripped by descriptions of matches, and the plot,
though slight, reaches a satisfying conclusion. But the