The Girl on the Boat
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The Girl on the Boat is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse. The story first appeared as a serial in Woman's Home Companion in the U.S., under the title Three Men and a Maid, from October to December 1921. It was first published as a book in the U.S. on April 26, 1922 by George H. Doran, New York, and as The Girl on the Boat in the U.K. by Herbert Jenkins, London, on June 15 1922.
The maid of the title is red-haired, dog-loving Wilhelmina "Billie" Bennet, and the three men are Bream Mortimer, a long-time friend and admirer of Billie, Eustace Hignett, a lily-livered poet who is engaged to Billie at the opening of the tale, and Sam Marlowe, Eustace's dashing cousin, who falls for Billie at first sight. All four find themselves on an ocean liner headed for England together, and typically Wodehousian romantic shenanigans ensue...
A film adaptation was made in 1963, starring Norman Wisdom as Marlowe, Richard Briers (who would later portray Gally for a BBC adaptation of Heavy Weather) as Eustace, Philip Locke as Bream Mortimer and Millicent Martin as Billie.
[edit] External links
- The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with numerous book covers and a list of characters
- Free eBook of Three Men and a Maid at Project Gutenberg
- The Girl on the Boat at the Internet Movie Database
