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Cakes and Ale
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When a famous Victorian novelist dies, his official biographer turns to the narrator, William Ashenden, for memories of the great man's early years. Ashenden's recollections lead back to Rosie, the novelist's warm, generous and unfaithful first wife. W. Somerset Maugham's witty 1930 satire of literary reputation, and the novel he called his favourite.
