The Clicking of Cuthbert with Elin Woodger Murphy

Ian is joined by extra special honoured guest Elin Woodger Murphy, A legend of the Wodehouse Society (and the Wodehouse Society UK), former editor/"oldest member" of Plum Lines and Wooster Sauce and one of the organisers of this year's Wodehouse Society Convention in Garden City, NY.

The book we are discussing this month is The Clicking of Cuthbert (1922), Wodehouse's first collection of golf stories, AKA Golf Without Tears. Elin also talks of her childhood spent in Port Chester and Long Island where they lived very near the Wodehouses, and of her history in Wodehouse fan circles. We also enthuse over the work of Elin's late husband, Norman Murphy.

There will be plot spoilers and stymies.

Next month: The Girl on the Boat with Ansley Ashe.

Special thanks to Maria Jette.

The Wodehouse Society website, with details of the 2026 convention in Garden City, NY

My band The Seven Inches are playing a show this month! Tickets here

You can e-mail me at wodehousekeeping@gmail.com.

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Reference works consulted

N T Murphy: A Wodehouse Handbook