Book 69: "Psmith in the City" by P. G. Wodehouse

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Public schoolboys Mike and Psmith are about to go up to Cambridge, but due to Mike's father losing his money and Psmith's father being persuaded it's a good idea by his friend Bickersdyke, they find themselves working in the City, as junior clerks at the New Asiatic Bank which is run by Bickersdyke. Although the work is non too taxing, it isn't very interesting either and while Mike frets about not being able to play cricket, Psmith spends his time outside work in baiting Bickersdyke by following him around at his club and disrupting his campaign to be elected as an MP. At the same time he is buttering up his immediate boss at the bank by feigning an interest in Manchester United, thus ensuring that he doesn’t find fault with Psmith's work, so that Bickersdyke has no excuse to sack him.

It was quite a change from the other Wodehouse novels I have read, since there are no trouble-making aunts or jealous lovers within its pages.