Cakes and Ale

Description

W. Somerset Maugham’s satire of London literary society between the Wars sees social climber Alroy Kear being flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her novelist husband, and determined to write a bestseller. But then Kear discovers the great novelist’s voluptuous muse and unlikely first wife, Rosie. The lively, loving heroine once gave Driffield enough material to last a lifetime, but now her memory casts an embarrassing shadow over his career and respectable image. Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his wise, witty, catty best. This is the first leatherbound edition published in 1935 and is in good condition.