Sheer Abandon - Penny Vincenzi

PLOT SUMMARY =========== It's 1985 and three 18-year-old British women meet at Heathrow airport whilst waiting to get on with their gap year travels around Asia. The young women bond immediately and pledge to stay in contact when they return from their travels. Life soon gets in the way, and the girls never fulfil their promise until 15 years later when fate brings them back together again. Clio is a successful GP married to a surgeon who puts his life and career before hers leaving her feeling frustrated and unloved, Jocasta is a journalist, forever seeking the next story and wishing her boyfriend would hurry up and prove his commitment to ...  Read the complete review

I was given this book as a birthday present and had not read a Penny Vincenzi book before, so I wasn't sure what to expect before I began reading it. I am an avid reader of chick-lit books, which this was clearly not so it is a bit of a departure from my usual reading material. The book is a pretty thick paperbook, which some people may find a bit off-putting when they first pick it up. The book follows the lives of three women: Martha, Cleo and Jocasta. They first met while travelling in 1985, but all three women now lead very different lives. Martha is an ambitious and highly successful lawyer; Clio is a doctor trapped in an unhappy marriage, and Jocasta is ...  Read the complete review

First published in 2005 by Headling Book Publishing. ISBN: 0 7553 2083 2 RRP: £6.99 Pages: 720 ~~Penny Vincenzi, Sheer Abandon~~ At first glance looks too thick a book to plough through!But trust me its worth the effort. ~The Characters~ The story is set around three glamorous women, friends who met at the beginning of their travels as students in 1985; Martha: a single woman, far too career minded to bother with men at the moment! A highly paid lawyer. Clio: Unhappily married to a surgeon, a very clever character also a doctor. Jocasta: In ...  Read the complete review