The Spectator, December 8th, 2007
'Listen, Bill, ' wrote P. G. Wodehouse (in a letter published in Performing Flea), 'something really must be done about Kip's "Mrs Bathurst". I read it years ago and didn't understand a word of it. I thought to myself, "Ah, youthful ignorance!" A week ago I re-read it. Result: precisely the same.' Wodehouse is not alone in finding the story baffling. At once rambling and compressed, told entirely in reminiscent and speculative conversation, it is powerful but murky. You may feel it is a masterpiece yet be unable to determine just what happens. Summarising it is difficult, but, for the benefit ...
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