VINTAGE CLASSICS : MERRY GO ROUND PB – W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

"Looking out upon the backstreets, the suburbs and the high society haunts of Edwardian London, the delightfully witty and independent spinster Miss Ley surveys a tangled web of lives; she sympathetically observes the struggle under the pressures of convention, and the complex interplay between love and reason. Through Miss Ley s eyes we witness the brief but happy marriage of a dying poet; a woman s adulterous passion for a young rascal, and finally, an honourable man s decision to take virtue to extremes."