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They remained hidden until transcripts were tracked down to the south of France by Selina Hastings, who has written Maugham’s first authorised biography.
In the tapes, Liza recalled how as an eight-year-old she went for a drive on the French Riviera, where her father spent much of his time, with Haxton, a friend and her puppy.
“Suddenly, in an act of possibly drunken, seemingly inexplicable cruelty, Gerald at the wheel scooped up the dog and hurled it out of the window,” she said.
“I was hysterical and tried to throw myself out of the car after it, but was held back.” Miraculously, the dog survived and turned up several months later.
Hastings’s biography, published this week, reveals how Haxton would procure teenage boys for Maugham in France and how they also kept a male prostitute at the novelist’s villa for their own pleasure and that of guests.