Cakes and Ale (Vintage International) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Cakes and Ale (Vintage International) Saturday, August 1 2009.

• 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 embarrissing shadow over his career and respectable image.  Wise, witty, deeply satisfying, Cakes and Ale is Maugham at his best.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Cakes and Ale (Vintage International) Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Somerset Maugham: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Cakes and Ale (Vintage International) Friday, July 17 2009.

• I HAVE noticed that when someone asks for you on the telephone and, finding you out, leaves a message begging you to call him up the moment you come in, and it's important, the matter is more often important to him than to you.