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050			_aPR9530.9.E54 H68
100			_aTan, Twan Eng _eAuthor _976869
245			_aThe House of Doors
260			_aNew York : _bBloomsbury Publishing, _c 2023.
300			_a306 pages ; _c 25 cm
520			_a"The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When 'Willie' Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary, Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one. Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings--and the freedom to travel with Gerald. His career deflating, his health failing, Maugham arrives at Cassowary House in desperate need of a subject for his next book. Lesley, too, is enduring a marriage more duplicitous than it first appears. Maugham suspects an affair, and, learning of Lesley's past connection to the Chinese revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat Sen, decides to probe deeper. But as their friendship grows and Lesley confides in him about life in the Straits, Maugham discovers a far more surprising tale than he imagined, one that involves not only war and scandal but the trial of an Englishwoman charged with murder. It is, to Maugham, a story worthy of fiction"
650			_a Triangles (Interpersonal relations) _vFiction _971823
650			_a Friendship _vFiction. _974440
650			_a Secrecy _vFiction _971822
650			_aGay men _vFiction _974709
650			_aMarried people _vFiction _974468
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