Sheer Abandon

Fülszöveg

these are family sagas filled with tempestuous women, successful, sexy men and passionate plots Vincenzi s writing has
[-fashioned quality Readers will find every page irresistible' Washington Post
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 before 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... Tovább

Fülszöveg

these are family sagas filled with tempestuous women, successful, sexy men and passionate plots Vincenzi s writing has
[-fashioned quality Readers will find every page irresistible' Washington Post
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 before 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?
Set against a background of newspaper journalism and politics, and the exhilarating freedom of the backpackers' trail, Sheer Abandon is perhaps the most exciting and intriguing of all Penny Vincenzi s novels so far.
Praise for Penny Vincenzi:
4Packed with passion, pace and palaver high-class, well-structured, with enough juicy sub-plots and interesting minor ^ characters to keep you gripped through many a chilly evening* r3P Daily Mail
'My idea of heaven is lying by a pool with a new Penny Vincenzi Her books capture my imagination totally I She's brilliant' Lisa Milton, Financial Times
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