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Cakes and Ale: or The Skeleton in the Clipboard is a novel without a hero. Narrator is William Ashenden, middle-aged bachelor writer, through whose disillusioned eyes you see unfolded the story of Edward Drimeld and the lovely Rosie. When Edward Drimeld died his late-won position as Grand Old Man of English Letters was secure. His shrewd second wife wanted an official, respectably-mum-mifying biography, asked the popular novelist Alroy Rear to write it. But Ashenden was one of the few who knew anything about Driffield's early life. When Kear tried to pump him, Ashenden had reason...
Ashenden was a boy when he first met Drimeld, then a struggling author, and Rosie, his beautiful barmaid wife. When the Driffields "shot the moon" (left town without paying their debts J, Ashenden thought he would never see them again. But years later, while a medical student in London, he met Rosie on the street, went home with her to tea, became an habitue of the Drimeld salon. Rosie was the chief attraction. Kindhearted, affectionate, she became Ashenden's mistress, but he knew he shared her with others. One day she ran off to the U. S. with a married...
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