Mrs Craddock Av W. Somerset Maugham

<p>Bertha Ley comes of age, inherits her father''s money and promptly marries a handsome, calm and unimaginative man. Bertha is wildly in love with Edward and believes she can be happy playing the role of a dutiful wife in their country home. But, intelligent and sensual, she quickly becomes bored by her oppressively conventional life, and finds her love for her husband slipping away.<br><br>Originally rejected by publishers, <i>Mrs Craddock</i> was first published only on condition that certain ''shocking'' passages were removed. It was thirty years before the full text could be published.</p>