The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (Canongate, 2024)
Historical Fiction
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng (ISBN: 9781838858292), is one of the short-listed nominees for this year’s Booker Prize. Set in the 1920s, in Penang, the settled lives of Robert and his society wife Lesley are stirred up when the famed but struggling writer, Willie Somerset Maugham, comes to stay. As friendship deepens, confidences are exchanged and scandalous secrets are revealed.