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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 ambitionand someone to watch. His wife Alice, a former nurse, shares his ideals. It seems they are the perfect match. Then, out of the blue, Tom meets an old childhood acquaintance, the beautiful and unhappily married Diana Southcott, a fashion model. In many ways, she is everything Tom fights against, but she is also irresistible and so, flirting with danger, they embark on an affair that is potentially damaging to both. And when his child becomes ill, Tom is forced to make decisions about his principles, his career, his marriage, and, most of all, his love for his child.A Question of Trust is a vintage Penny Vincenzi novel: rich in characterization, life-changing decisions, love, desire, and conflict. Seductively readable (The Times), it is a luscious, page-turning read about a precarious situationboth utterly compelling and hugely rewarding.

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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 authors 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 life making difficult and often dangerous decisions that affect herself and others-her husband, Oliver, and their children; the destitute Sylvia Miller, whose life is transformed by Celias intrusion; as well as Olivers daunting elder sister, who is not all she appears to be; and Sebastian Brooke, for whom Celia makes the most dangerous decision of all. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of London and New York in the First World War, No Angel is, as British Good Housekeeping wrote, an absorbing page-turner, packed with believable characters and satisfyingly extreme villains, eccentrics, and manipulators. Readers of Maeve Binchy, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Anita Shreve will fall in love with this epic, un-put-downable novel.

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None of them are the children of Alexander, Earl of Caterham, who was married to their mother for almost twenty years. A family saga that takes the reader right from the 1950s to the end of the twentieth century, and set between the Hamptons summer homes of New Yorks elite and the English countryside familiar to any fan of British period drama, its a tale of the power and greed of the mega-rich, as the great banking business upon which the familys fortunes are won and lost comes to the brink of ruin. Intense relationships, both old and new, are tested to the utmost in this grand and unputdownable summer read.

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Penny Vincenzi, the queen of riveting family drama, is back! Love and marriage, families and secrets, these are the things her writing is all about, and Forbidden Places is her most page-turning book yet. Wartime is never easy, and Grace Bennett and her two friends are doing the best they can. But bombs aren't the only danger war offers; every accepted social value and personal conviction can be blown apart. A marriage is often the first thing to suffer. Of the three women, one is married and widowed within five years. She is free to start againor is she? Another woman has a husband she thinks she loves, but must question whether that love is real when circumstance turns him into a grotesque parody of what he once was. A third woman is trapped in a nightmare marriagecan the war free her? Forbidden Places is another gripping, historical family drama by Penny Vincenzi, the mistress of the genre, certain to please her millions of fans.

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In The Dilemma, Vincenzi's first novel, all Francesca Channing has to 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 richand he adores her. He's also manipulative and scheming, with a family as large and complex as his businessFrancesca is his third wife, after all. But it was an emotional crisis of her own which finally put Francesca's dilemma into perspective, that made her wonder if she loved him enough to lie for him, that made her wonder how far she could go.