On his way home from a remote Pacific island, Dr Saunders travels with two strangers: the treacherous Captain Nichols, and Fred, a handsome Australian with a shadowy past. Driven to shelter from a storm on the island of Kanda, the trio meet good-natured Erik Christessen and his fiancee, the cool and beautiful Louise. A tense, exotic tale of love, jealousy, murder and suicide, which evolved from a passage in Maugham's earlier masterpiece, The Moon and Sixpence.
  • ISBN10 014001859X
  • ISBN13 9780140018592
  • Publish Date 25 August 1977 (first published April 1976)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 25 October 2004
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Penguin Group
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 224
  • Language English