One of the Authors featured in Literary Norfolk
P B Wodehouse (1881-1975)
'I spend most of my time on the moat, which is really a sizeable lake. I'm writing this in the punt with my typewriter on a bed-table wobbling on one of the seats. There is a duck close by which utters occasional quacks that sound like a man with an unpleasant voice saying nasty things in an undertone.'
Comic writer and prolific popular novelist P G Wodehouse spent many happy hours at Hunstanton Hall, where he plotted titles such as Money For Nothing (1928) and Very Good Jeeves (1930). There have been Wodehouses in Norfolk for centuries and the creator of Jeeves and Wooster happily borrows from the area around Hunstanton Hall for his comic novels. 'Plum', as Wodehouse was affectionately known, blurs fiction and fact exquisitely and usually hilariously, introducing several 'Norfolk' characters (such as Lady Wroxham, Lord Heacham and Jack Snettisham) along the way.
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