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Cakes and Ale

or The Skeleton in the Cupboard

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Cakes and Ale

Written by: W. Somerset Maugham
Narrated by: Neil Hunt
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Cakes and Ale is a delicious satire of London literary society between the Wars. Social climber Alroy Kear is flattered when he is selected by Edward Driffield’s wife to pen the official biography of her lionized 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. Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

"[Maugham] is a master for creating the appetite for information, of withholding it until the right moment, and then providing it surprisingly."—Evelyn Waugh

©1930 Doubleday & Company, Inc. (P)1987 Recorded Books Classics Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Comedy Witty
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