Sue says about The House of Doors: "A wonderfully engrossing story set in Penang in 1921 against a backdrop of real events and featuring Eng's usual cast of beautifully drawn characters. Focusing on Robert and Lesley Hamlyn and their affluent friends as they entertain W. Somerset-Maugham, it's a drama of love and betrayal, truth and morality." LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTIONA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, NEW YORKER AND WASHINGTON POST BOOK OF THE YEARWillie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. His friend Robert Hamlyn offers an escape in the Straits Settlements of Penang, where Robert's steely wife Lesley learns to see Willie as he is - a man who has no choice but to mask his true self. As Willie prepares to leave, Lesley confides in him secrets of her own, including how she came to know the charismatic revolutionary Dr Sun Yat Sen. And more scandalous still, her connection to an Englishwoman charged with murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts - a tragedy drawn from fact, and worthy of fiction. Author: Eng, Tan Twan Historical fiction Published on 7 March 2024 by Canongate Books in the United Kingdom.Paperback / softback | 320 pages129 x 197 x 23 | 224g
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