Showing Mrs. Craddock by W. Somerset Maugham

Paperback. Pub the Date: November 2000 of Pages: 291 Publisher: Vintage Berta Ley comes of age. The inherits her father's on Air + Hotel - and promptly marries a handsome. Light winds from the and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in. love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But. intelligent and sensual. she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life. and finds her love for her husband slipping away. Originally rejected by publishers. IMrs. CraddockI was first published only on condition that certain 'shocking' passages were removed. It was thirty years before the full text could be published.