About The Painted Veil. “Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whisky and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.". The Painted Veil is a novel by celebrated English author W. Somerset Maugham, first published in 1925. The story follows Kitty Garstin, an attractive upper-class debutante whose mother seeks to arrange a brilliant match for her.. Squandering her other prospects, she is persuaded to marry physician Walter Fane and move with him to the Far East. Discovered in an adulterous affair, Kitty is forced to accompany her spouse into the heart of a cholera epidemic, resulting in an awakening of her conscience and growth..
