Lost for Words, Winner of the Wodehouse Prize

From any other writer, a satire about literary awards would be something to flee, but I'd follow Edward St Aubyn anywhere. His eighth novel, and his first non-Patrick Melrose book in fourteen years, Lost for Words [and Kindle] arrives in the US today after sharply dividing critics in Britain. Yesterday it was the surprise winner of the Wodehouse prize for literature that has a sense of humor. His fellow finalists were 

• Sebastian Faulks, Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
• Helen Fielding, Mad about the Boy
• Hanif Kureishi, The Last Word
• John Niven, Straight White Male
• Joseph O'Connor, The Thrill of it All

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Thanks for humor books! Bon anniversaire.