- Paperback: 736 pages
- Publisher: Headline Review; paperback / softback edition (10 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755320832
- ISBN-13: 978-0755320837
- Product Dimensions: 13 x 4.7 x 19.7 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 120,935 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Vincenzi...is generous in giving her readers exactly what they have come to expect and enjoy'
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'...like a glass of champagne: bubbly, moreish and you don't want it to end.'
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Whenever a new Penny Vincenzi comes out I lose a weekend, totally engrossed in it and the good news is she's done it again.
As usual the plot twists and turns with a mystery at its heart; the fact that I correctly solved the mystery this time by a quarter the way through in no way spoilt my enjoyment. Finding out if I was right and how it would unfold made for compelling reading.
Lovely intelligent froth and right on form. May you live and write to be 100, Panny.
ETA I've just re-read this, having read and hated the latest book and all has fallen into place for me. It's obvious that there has been a change of editor in the last five years as all the things that have irritated me in the last couple of novels are missing.
A plea to you and your publishers, Penny, please bring back your old editor, their skills enhanced your books immeasurably.
As usual the plot twists and turns with a mystery at its heart; the fact that I correctly solved the mystery this time by a quarter the way through in no way spoilt my enjoyment. Finding out if I was right and how it would unfold made for compelling reading.
Lovely intelligent froth and right on form. May you live and write to be 100, Panny.
ETA I've just re-read this, having read and hated the latest book and all has fallen into place for me. It's obvious that there has been a change of editor in the last five years as all the things that have irritated me in the last couple of novels are missing.
A plea to you and your publishers, Penny, please bring back your old editor, their skills enhanced your books immeasurably.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have read all Penny's books and loved them all but this one. Normally her books leave me not wanting to put them down but unfurtunately I found this hard to pick up.I think it was plainly obvious from the onset who the father was and found the book quite boring. About to start on her latest novel hope she is back on form.
26 of 28 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Sadly, I have to concur with the previous two negative reviews. Whilst I couldn't say that the book is a total bore, unlike any of Penny Vincenzi's previous books, it totally failed to engage me. The characterisation was a confusing hotch-potch of British politics (yawn), unlikely foreys into journalism and medicine. None of the characters were remotely believable. Nor likeable for that matter. Throughout the whole book I had the feeling that the author really didn't have a clue where she would go with this story. As one reviewer commented, the whole caboodle could have been written in two A 4 pages.
What a very, VERY odd book from such an accomplished story teller. If you find it cheaply in a boot sale and you are planning a long reading period due to enforced confinement - go for it. Otherwise, don't bother. Buy all of her other books instead, though!! Now those are truly EXCELLENT reads.
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Abandon it now!!
Having read many of Penny Vincenzi's books (Starting with the 'No Angel' Trilogy, which I loved) I can say they've got worse as I've gone along. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Emma
The great Penny
another masterpiece I am in trouble with the other half. cannot seem to put Pennys books down.Amazon here I come for more.
Published 8 months ago by cbrhull
A Highly Entertaining Read
Sex, politics and a devastating secret ... Penny combines these elements with the search of a sixteen-year-old girl for her birth mother, resulting in a novel that is both... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jessica Chambers
Fabulous, vintage Vincenzi
Penny Vincenzi is my favourite author so anything she writes is so looked forward to. This story about three women who met as teenagers, one of whom has a baby she abandons at... Read more
Published 22 months ago by C. Madden
Long winded but worth it
I bought this a number of years ago at the airport before going on holiday following a review in a magazine and I wasn't disappointed. Read more
Published 23 months ago by lachbc
Absolutely dire
Having read a number of Vincenzi's novels and thoroughly enjoyed them, I was extremely disappointed to wade my way through this tiresome and predictable novel. Read more
Published on 11 Jan 2010 by Ziggyblues
Bit disappointing
Although this was by no means a bad book it certainly wasn't nearly as good as some of her others like Wicked Pleasures and the Spoils of Time Trilogy. Read more
Published on 30 Jun 2009 by A Reader from Stockport
Enjoyable
I have to say that I found this book very enjoyable. After reading 'An Absolute Scandal' and finding that I could not identify with any of the toffee nosed characters or their... Read more
Published on 16 Jan 2009 by A. Kane
whopping read, absorbing but annoying
In the end I decided the book was rather frantic - one minute you were being asked to accept something was exciting and wonderful and then you had to discard that notion. Read more
Published on 9 Sep 2008 by Mrs. Katharine Kirby
A Right Riveting Read!
This was my first Penny Vincenzi book and it certainly won't be my last. I was a bit worried that the politics side of it would be too heavy going for me (not being very... Read more
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