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Sarah Broadhurst's view...
She is such a lovely writer, the sort where you completely lose yourself in her characters and plot. A big, totally engrossing read of an abandoned baby, now a teenager, seeking her natural parents. Just a tad too much on the Blair government, I felt, but otherwise a cracking yarn.
Comparison: Judith Lennox, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Julian Fellowes.
Similar this month: Diana Appleyard, Santa Montefiore.
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Synopsis
Sheer Abandon by Penny Vincenzi
One night in 1986 an abandoned baby girl is found in a cleaning cupboard at Heathrow airport. A year earlier, three girls, Martha, Clio and Jocasta had met by chance, at the start of a backpacking adventure: they travelled together briefly and then separated to go their different ways, swearing to meet again when they return home. But it would be a long time until they met again: not until Kate, the foundling, is a teenager, and the three women are all leading successful lives. Martha is a fiercely single, highly paid corporate lawyer, Clio a doctor, locked in an unhappy marriage to a surgeon, and Jocasta a reporter for a tabloid newspaper, in love with a charming commitment-phobe. Which of them is Kate's mother? Why was she desperate enough to do such a thing, and how did she survive it?
About the Author
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Penny Vincenzi is one of the UK’s best-loved and most popular authors. Since her first novel, Old Sins, was published in 1989, she has written thirteen bestselling novels, most recently An Absolute Scandal.
Her first ‘proper’ job was at the Harrods Library, aged sixteen, after which she went to secretarial college. She joined the Mirror and later became a journalist, writing for The Times, the Daily Mail and Cosmopolitan amongst many others, before turning to fiction. Several years later, over four million copies of Penny’s books have been sold worldwide and she is universally held to be the ‘doyenne of the modern blockbuster’ (Glamour).
Penny Vincenzi is married, with four daughters, and divides her time between London and Gower, South Wales.
Fellow novelist SOPHIE KING on PENNY VINCENZI
I met Penny during my time as a journalist and thought she was
wonderful. She's given me advice over the years as well as a quote for
my own covers. Penny's books have a wide cast of characters so there's
something for most of us. She's also got a gift for creating settings
so the smells and colours leap out of the pages.
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