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 An Absolute Scandal - Penny Vincenzi
 An Absolute Scandal - Penny Vincenzi ... few requests for money from various Names. And then the demands got bigger. And bigger. Until thousands of people, some rich, most of them just comfortably off, found their lives ruined, homes gone, relationships wrecked. All because of money. When you do have it, its value isn't that important. When you don't - it's everything. Set against the glittering, adrenaline-fuelled last days of the 80s, 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 ..Newest Review: ... asbestosis losses that were in the pipeline. Do they have a case? It would appear they ... more ... had.
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Vincenz i's characters are fabulous. From the obviously upper middle-classes to the genteel, widowed little old ladies of slender financial resources, we are quickly drawn into their plight as they battle to save themselves and their families from penury.
The carefully worded letters from Lloyd's syndicates drop with an ominous thud onto the mats of Simon Beaumont, Flora Fielding and Nigel Cowper. Their losses start quietly enough but will esculate yearly until, even with nothing lef...more |
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An Absolute Scandal - Penny Vincenzi: WINNERS AND LOSERS (911 words)
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It was the biggest scandal of the Eighties. Real life: Inside information learned on the golf course is commonplace. In 1973, two leading executives in the insurance market and both of whom were Lloyd's men, were talking. Roger Bradley warns Rokeby-Johnson: (*) "Asbestosis is going to change the wealth of nations. It will bankrupt Lloyd's of London and there is nothing we can do to stop it." This knowledge didn't deter unscrupulous syndicates from roping in more people to become 'Names' - people who could ill-afford to underwrite the huge losses which were to come. (*) By the late Nineties, the ... Read the complete review
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