1972 first edition hardcover with dust jacket and 278 pages in good secondhand condition. Some ex-library markings inside.

After a long career of writing novels and plays, Robin Maugham turns now to his own life and gives us a stirring, rather harrowing autobiography, a story of persistent suffering and disappointment. Sparing no intimate details, he recounts the constant struggle to escape from the shadows--the shadow of his father., Lord Chancellor of England, and the shadow of his uncle, Somerset Maugham.