Currently reading
Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean
The Cambridge Companion to Jane Austen
Hildegard of Bingen: A Spiritual Reader
Up at the Villa (Vintage Classics)
While a big fan of Maugham, this short novel presents a rather melodramatic and difficult to buy plot. Add in some rather unappealing characters and there is not much to recommend. I'm sure I could write about a lot of themes, but if this was written by some unknown writer I would give it little thought.