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(0)Penny Vincenzi
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The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the specter of Nazi Germany is growing...Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways-but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed. Barty Miller, rescued from the London slums in babyhood by Celia Lytton,...
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A widowed matriarch's well-to-do English family is rocked by her plan to remarry in this "page-turner" from the bestselling author of No Angel (Publishers Weekly).
Rescued from the slums as a baby by Celia Lytton and now living in New York, Barty Miller heads more than half of the Lyttons publishing house. But as they fall on bad times in the years after World War II, the family is worried that Barty will make a business decision that would be...
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Tom and Octavia Fleming glitter among the chattering classes of London in the late 1990's. Tom, a brilliant political strategist, and Octavia, an equally talented charity consultant, appear to have it all-good looks, money, success, and three pretty children-everything but precious time together. When Octavia realizes that Tom is having an affair, she plots her revenge against her husband. But nothing prepares Octavia for the identity of Tom's mistress,...
5) The dilemma
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Treachery and blackmail shake up a real estate mogul's marriage in this debut novel by the #1 international–bestselling author of Sheer Abandon.
All Francesca Channing must do in order to keep her marriage alive, her children safe, her life intact, is to tell a lie. One simple, straightforward lie. But it isn't that simple or straightforward at all.
Her husband is charismatic, powerful and rich-and he adores her. He's also manipulative and...
6) No angel
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With the publication of No Angel, a novel introducing the engaging cast of characters in the Lytton family, Overlook opens a thrilling new dimension to this author's already illustrious career. No Angel is an irresistibly sweeping saga of power, family politics, and passion-a riveting drama and a fervent love story. Celia Lytton is the beautiful and strong-willed daughter of wealthy aristocrats and she is used to getting her way. She moves through...
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A saga set throughout the latter half of the twentieth century that traces a mega-wealthy family's efforts to orchestrate respective agendas from their Hamptons summer home and English countryside manor, while a brother and two sisters discover that they all have different fathers.
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Anchor Books
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2010
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"On an ordinary London afternoon, a truck swerves across five lanes of traffic and creates a tangle of chaos and confusion. As loved ones wait to hear news and the hospital prepares to receive the injured, a dozen lives hang in the balance. A doctor is torn between helping the injured and hiding his young mistress; a bridegroom hopes to get to the church on time; a widow waiting to reunite with a lost love ponders whether she'll ever see him again;...
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Abrams / Vearsa Limited
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[2009]
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"Gives readers more of what they've come to expect from Penny Vincenzi: a thoroughly enjoyable family saga with glamour, romance and drama to spare." -Bookreporter
A mysterious, tragic accident in the 1950s. An inexplicable suicide twenty years later. What was the strange link between the two-and Caroline Hunterton's long-buried past? A secret which could not be kept forever, especially from her two daughters, Chloe and Fleur. Fate had separated...
12) Forbidden Places
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Forbidden Places is Penny Vincenzi¹s 8th riveting family drama and is about love and marriage, families and secrets, and about wartime and what it does to every accepted social value.
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Penny Vincenzi, internationally bestselling author of No Angel, has dazzled readers with her intricately crafted novels for nearly twenty years. She unleashes her signature narrative prowess once more in her latest novel, A Question of Trust. In 1950s London, Tom Knelston is charismatic, charming, with a passion for politics and reform. He is a man with ambition-and someone to watch. His wife Alice, a former nurse, shares his ideals. It seems...