Theatre Author:W. Somerset Maugham Julia Lambert was a beautiful,successful, rich London actress. She had the adoration of her public, her husband, and her son. But it wasn't enough. Almost without being awareof it, she fell in love with a man half her age. At first he amused her, then he enslaved her, and then almost destroyed her when she learned the identify of her strange... more » rival. "Brilliant... the sheer unmatched skillwould fill any novelist with envy".« less