This book is a Blandings novel. When the moon is full at Blandings, strange things happen: among them the painting of a portrait of The Empress, twice in succession winner in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show. What better choice of artist, in Lord Emsworths opinion, than Landseer. The renowned painter of The Stag at Bay may have been dead for decades, but that doesnt prevent Galahad Threepwood from introducing him to the castle - or rather introducing Bill Lister, Gallys godson, so desperately in love with Prudence that hes determined to enter Blandings in yet another imposture. Add a gaggle of fearsome aunts, uncles and millionaires, mix in Freddie Threepwood, Beach the Butler and the gardener McAllister, and the moon is full indeed.