Summer lightning

Lord Emsworth, the ninth Earl, has little on his mind besides Empress of Blandings, his award-winning sow, and the approaching agricultural exhibition where she is due to compete. His attention is pulled elsewhere when word gets out that his brother Galahad Threepwood intends to publish his memoirs. Several elderly peers of the realm, who would rather their own pasts stayed buried, begin to fret.

The story unfolds at Blandings Castle, the Shropshire estate that serves as the setting for the Blandings novels. It is one of the best-known comic series in English fiction, and Summer Lightning is the third of its books.