Cover of Cakes and Ale or The skeleton in the cupboard

Cakes and Ale or The skeleton in the cupboard

by William Somerset Maugham

1970 187 pages eng ★ 3.5 (4 ratings)

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 gre…

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