The Great Sermon Handicap

In the quiet villages of England, sport takes many forms. But none is as treacherous as a Sunday morning in church. The Great Sermon Handicap begins with an innocent enough idea and quickly drifts into that uniquely Wodehouseian territory where friendly competition becomes absurdly serious. Bertie Wooster soon discovers that even the calm rituals of village life can inspire rivalry, speculation, and chaos on a near-professional scale. Elegant, mischievous, and beautifully timed, this story showcases Wodehouse at his most playful — transforming ordinary social rituals into a masterpiece of comic escalation, where every polite conversation hides the possibility of complete catastrophe.  A brilliantly irreverent comedy of errors that proves that in Wodehouse's world, even a religious service is a perfectly valid reason for a spectacular disaster.