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From the Booker Prize-nominated author of The Garden of Evening Mist comes a gripping and rich story of love, betrayal and morality in 1920s Penang. Willy Somerset Maugham is considered one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. Willy Somerset Maugham is considered one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. But in 1921, he was struggling with an unhappy marriage, illness, and faltering business interests. He also struggled to write. His friend Robert Hamlin offers him refuge in the Penang Colonies in the Malacca Strait, where Robert's tough wife, Leslie, learns to see Willie for what he is - a man who has no choice but to hide who he really is. As Willy prepares to leave, Leslie confides her own secrets to him, including how she met the charismatic revolutionary Dr. Sun Yat-sen. And, most scandalously, her relationship with an Englishwoman accused of murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts – a tragedy inspired by reality, worthy of fiction. * “Brilliant... _The House of Doors” once again demonstrates Ing's talent for evoking the atmosphere of place and time... With its beautiful detail that includes the vicissitudes of Somerset Maugham's life, the strokes of his creativity, and the personal and political tensions that quivered secretly throughout the colony surrounding it, _The House of Doors_ is a work of great mastery. Tobin, “The Guardian,” “A great literary achievement in fiction.” “A work so suggestive, so richly observed, so utterly convincing, a feat!” -William Boyd “Brilliantly crafted, tightly plotted, rich in atmosphere.” -Financial Times