Product Description

One night in 1987 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 until 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?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #383044 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 640 pages

The Daily Mail
'Vincenzi...is generous in giving her readers exactly what they have come to expect and enjoy'

The Express
'...like a glass of champagne: bubbly, moreish and you don't want it to end.'

The Daily Mail
'...it’s high-class, well-structured, with enough juicy sub-plots and interesting minor characters to keep you gripped through many a chilly evening’

Customer Reviews

Another lost weekend ...
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.

SHEER ABANDON - OF ALL YOUR HOUSEWORK!!!!!!!
I have seen all the negative reviews of this novel and felt I just had to review it to redress the balance. I have read every Penny Vincenzi book right from her brilliant first novel OLD SINS and this book did not disappoint either. I have recently read a few books that didn't seem up to my normal standard and become a bit bored and so I really needed something good to get my teeth into. I bought this book and, as I usually do just before I start a book, I read the Amazon reviews. I couldn't believe there were so many people who didn't enjoy it that much but Penny's previous reputation as an author reigned supreme and the reviews didn't put me off so I started the book. I had 2 days off work at the time and the weather was wonderful so all I did was sit out in the garden and read and didn't do much else for the next few days. The book was so easy to get into with characters you really care about. It was soon unputdownable. Some people have said it was too long but I didn't find it so-I think it was just right-any briefer and there wouldn't be enough detail but it didn't ramble at all the pace was just right. A real holiday read. Excellent

SHEER ABANDON
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.