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MRS. LORA DELANE PORTER had ideas; that was the beginning of all the trouble.

She didn't trust nature's laws of selection. Mate the most perfect adults and you get the most perfect children -- that was her theory. Of such a marriage "Bill" is born; the White hope they called him.

There is, however, only one man who can tell the story, and that is the author, P. G. Wodehouse, whose... More

MRS. LORA DELANE PORTER had ideas; that was the beginning of all the trouble.

She didn't trust nature's laws of selection. Mate the most perfect adults and you get the most perfect children -- that was her theory. Of such a marriage "Bill" is born; the White hope they called him.

There is, however, only one man who can tell the story, and that is the author, P. G. Wodehouse, whose works "Piccadilly Jim" and "A Damsel in Distress" have earned him the reputation of being a national humorist.He is something more besides -- an insurance policy against boredom.

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Their Mutual Child is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the U.S. in 1920 and under the title "The Coming of Bill ", in the U.K. on July 1, 1919.

The book tells the story of Kirk Winfield, his marriage to Ruth, and their child called Bill. Bill's upbringing is threatened by the interference of Ruth's busybody writer aunt, Mrs Lora Delane Porter.

A silent, black-and-white film version was made in 1920, under the Their Mutual Child title.