Contemporary Book Club -- The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng

On August 27th at 7 PM, we will meet to discuss The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng. Copies will be available at the Reference Desk.

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.

Searching for his next story, 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.

Links of Interest:

NPR review 

The Guardian 

Interview with author