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I recently finished Liza of Lambeth, W. Somerset Maugham’s first novel, novella really, read by Davina Porter and I found it quite gripping. It’s not terribly plotty, but as a slice-of-life account of life from the woman’s perspective in a London slum in the late Victorian era it was very powerful. Maugham was writing from life; it was based on his experiences as a medical student in Lambeth. Porter did a fantastic job with the dialect.
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