Sheer Abandon

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Regular price €17.50
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A Perfect Heritage
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abandoned baby
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baby girl
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compelling and absorbing
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Penny Vincenzi novels
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romance
secrets
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thrilling and surprising
Travel
twists and turns
unputdownable and page-turning
Vintage Vincenzi
weekend reads in fiction

Product details

  • ISBN 9780755320837
  • Format: Paperback
  • Weight: 497g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Oct 2005
  • Publisher: Headline Publishing Group
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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An abandoned baby girl, a secret, the story of survival...

'Like a glass of champagne: bubbly, moreish and you don't want it to end' Daily Express

One night in 1986 an abandoned baby girl is found in a cupboard at Heathrow airport. A year earlier Martha, Clio and Jocasta had met by chance, at the start of a backpacking adventure: they travelled together briefly and then went their own ways.

Years later, when Kate, the foundling, is a teenager, and all three women are leading successful lives, they meet again. Martha is a single, highly paid lawyer, Clio a doctor, locked in an unhappy marriage, and Jocasta a reporter, 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?

Penny Vincenzi's SHEER ABANDON is the unputdownable story of one desperate act, and the consequences that follow...

Penny Vincenzi, who died in 2018, was one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors, known for her epic period and contemporary novels. After her debut, Old Sins, was first published in 1989, she went on to write sixteen more bestselling novels and two collections of stories. She began her career as a junior secretary for Vogue magazine and went on to work at The Daily Mirror, Tatler, and later as a journalist and editor on magazines such as Woman's Own and Cosmopolitan. Over seven million copies of Penny Vincenzi's books have been sold worldwide and she is universally held to be the 'doyenne of the modern blockbuster' (Glamour).