Summer Lightning

Summer Lightning
First US edition cover
AuthorP. G. Wodehouse
LanguageEnglish
GenreComic novel
PublisherDoubleday, Doran (US)
Herbert Jenkins (UK)
Publication date
1 July 1929 (US)
19 July 1929 (UK)
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Preceded byLeave it to Psmith (novel), Blandings Castle and Elsewhere (shorts) 
Followed byHeavy Weather 

Summer Lightning is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 1 July 1929 by Doubleday, Doran, New York, under the title Fish Preferred, and in the United Kingdom on 19 July 1929 by Herbert Jenkins, London.[1] It was serialised in The Pall Mall Magazine (UK) between March and August 1929 and in Collier's (US) from 6 April to 22 June 1929.

It forms part of the Blandings Castle saga, being the third full-length novel to be set there, after Something Fresh (1915) and Leave It to Psmith (1923). Heavy Weather (1933) forms a semi-sequel to the story, with many of the same characters involved.

  1. ^ McIlvaine (1990), pp. 56–57, A41.