Meet Tom and Octavia Fleming, who appeared to have the perfect power marriage until an affair leaves their lives in fatal danger. For this is no ordinary affair, but one that leads to life-threatening terror from which nothing and no one in the Flemings' charmed circle can escape. View More...
Penny Vincenzi, queen of the blockbuster, is back. What do you do when you lose everything? It was one of the biggest scandals of the 80s. Lloyds. It started with just a few requests for money from various Names. And then the demands got bigger. And bigger. Until thousands of people found their lives ruined and relationships wrecked. All because of money. An Absolute Scandal is the ultimate story of the rise and fall in the fortunes of a group of people - and the scandal whose effects were felt across the board. With devastating results ... View More...
Can wrong ever become right? Does the end justify the means? For Celia Lytton, there are no easy answers to these questions. Strong-willed, tough, and courageous, she moves through life making difficult and often dangerous decisions both for herself and for others, with the most far reaching consequences for everyone ...For her husband, Oliver, head of the great family publishing house of Lyttons; for Sylvia Miller, whose life of relentless poverty is transformed by Celia's intrusion; for Oliver's daunting elder sister, who is not all she appears to be; and for author Sebastian Brooke, for who... View More...
When three young women met by chance en route to Thailand at the start of a backpacking adventure, none could have guessed at the journey that was beginning. A year later, one of them has given birth to a baby girl and abandoned her at Heathrow airport...Clio is a doctor, clever and ambitious, locked in an unhappy marriage. Martha is resolutely single, a dedicated career woman yet also vulnerable. Jocasta is wild, impulsive, always looking for the next big story, whatever that may be. Three women. Three glittering careers. One guilty secret. SHEER ABANDON is a gripping, compelling story of the... View More...
When three young women met by chance en route to Thailand at the start of a backpacking adventure, none could have guessed at the journey that was beginning. A year later, one of them has given birth to a baby girl and abandoned her at Heathrow airport...Clio is a doctor, clever and ambitious, locked in an unhappy marriage. Martha is resolutely single, a dedicated career woman yet also vulnerable. Jocasta is wild, impulsive, always looking for the next big story, whatever that may be. Three women. Three glittering careers. One guilty secret. SHEER ABANDON is a gripping, compelling story of the... View More...
A hot summer's day, a crowded motorway, a split second that changed people's lives forever. Jonathan, the successful, charismatic surgeon returning from a liaison with his mistress Abi. Georgia, the young actress desperate to get to London for an audition for the part that could make her career; and Linda, her agent, dynamic, ambitious but lonely, and with a failed marriage behind her. Toby, the bridegroom with a dark secret on the way to his wedding, with his loyal best friend Barney. Mary, travelling to the airport to meet her first love, whom she hasn't seen in over fifty years; William, ... View More...
THE DECISION is a stunning and emotional new novel from the irresistible Penny Vincenzi. Set against a vibrant sixties backdrop, this is the story of two bright young things: Eliza, an ex-deb making a splash in the world of fashion, and Matt, a working-class boy carving out a serious name for himself in property. Their story begins with a love affair, closely followed by a marriage, followed by a baby. But whilst their relationship is at first fuelled by passion, it's not of the enduring kind, and soon what started out with such promise descends into a harrowing divorce case and an epic custo... View More...