Liza of Lambeth by W Somerset Maugham

First published in the year 1897, the present novel ‘Liza of Lambeth’ by W. Somerset Maugham was his first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road in Lambeth.