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From: The Spectator
Date: 20070908
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Sir: Mr Alan Magid draws attention to the excellent Mike by P.G. Wodehouse as both a major cricket novel and the best school story ever (Letters, 25 August). I am sure he is right on both counts and this is at least partly because P.G. Wodehouse was basing his book on facts, which would have been even better known at the date of publication. The Jackson brothers in Mike are clearly based, as N.T.P. Murphy's Wodehouse Handbook points out, on the cricketing Fosters of Malvern College. The school in the book is plainly Malvern as Wodehouse describes perfectly the cricket grounds, the Senior and ...

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