Mary Panton walls up her desires in a beautiful villa high up in the hills above Florence, as she calmly contemplates her disastrous marriage. She turns for help to the notorious Rowley Flint, and through him comes to realise that to deny love, with all its passions and risks, is to deny life itself.
New editions of these Somerset Maugham novels, with attractive new covers.
Tie-in to the new film which stars James Fox, Anne Bancroft and Kirstin
Scott Thomas.