Liza Kemp, eighteen and the liveliest girl in Vere Street, Lambeth, dances to the barrel-organ, flirts with the boys and enjoys bank-holiday outings. Then she falls for Jim Blakeston, an older married man, and the street, which knows everything, turns against her.
Drawn from Maugham’s years as a medical student in Lambeth, the 1897 novel that launched his career. Download the free EPUB.