The Moon and Sixpence

I picked it up and couldn't put it down. Alexander McCall Smith Mail on Sunday

"Magnificent" Express "From an era that produced George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells and John Galsworthy, Maugham is the great survivor" Economist "If anyone deserves resuscitation, he does... As a teenager, I read and reread my sister's long shelf of Maughams. What I enjoyed was their atmosphere: the brooding, sensual, sinister mood of exotic locations, where his characters seemed always on the verge of mania and where no-one behaved nearly so well as they were expected to" -- Rosemary Goring Herald