Wicked Pleasures - Penny Vincenzi

No Angel - Penny Vincenzi

I love reading, and I love to read literature of all levels - classics, award winners, chick lit, Harry Potter and Twilight, but one of my favourite authors is Penny Vincenzi. She is a master storyteller, and each novel has so many different threads in it, all of which crash in a sometimes devastating finale. No Angel is no different. It is the first novel of the Spoils of Time Trilogy, and opens with Celia Lytton aged 18 in the early years of the 20th century. We stay with her as she marries, has a family, joins her husbands publishing business, sees her husband and other loved ones go to war, and then deals with the consequences of that war. It spans almost 20 years, ...

No Angel - Penny Vincenzi

I love reading, and I love to read literature of all levels - classics, award winners, chick lit, Harry Potter and Twilight, but one of my favourite authors is Penny Vincenzi. She is a master storyteller, and each novel has so many different threads in it, all of which crash in a sometimes devastating finale. No Angel is no different. It is the first novel of the Spoils of Time Trilogy, and opens with Celia Lytton aged 18 in the early years of the 20th century. We stay with her as she marries, has a family, joins her husbands publishing business, sees her husband and other loved ones go to war, and then deals with the consequences of that war. It spans almost 20 years, ...

No Angel - Penny Vincenzi

Great start to a new multi-volume saga by this author. Fans of Vincenzi will enjoy the fast pace, and racy style of this novel, which can stand alone, although the ending does leave us wanting to read on. Good coverage of the effects of the First World War on family life, particularly women, and of the class divide. Well- researched, the ...

No Angel - Penny Vincenzi

Great start to a new multi-volume saga by this author. Fans of Vincenzi will enjoy the fast pace, and racy style of this novel, which can stand alone, although the ending does leave us wanting to read on. Good coverage of the effects of the First World War on family life, particularly women, and of the class divide. Well- researched, the ...

Almost a Crime - Penny Vincenzi

over two days, partly because I had no energy to do anything but read and partly because I could not put it down. Almost a Crime - Penny Vincenzi is a story of an average but somewhat high flying couple, they are mad about each other and are sure they could never live apart but at the same time they are driven by their separate careers and eventually their marriage fails and they separate. The reason for the separation is not only the career paths driving them apart but also because the husband has an affair with the wife s best friend, the wife s best friend has lost a baby and she goes on to abduct the once happy couples child. Too much more info would give the ...

Almost a Crime - Penny Vincenzi

over two days, partly because I had no energy to do anything but read and partly because I could not put it down. Almost a Crime - Penny Vincenzi is a story of an average but somewhat high flying couple, they are mad about each other and are sure they could never live apart but at the same time they are driven by their separate careers and eventually their marriage fails and they separate. The reason for the separation is not only the career paths driving them apart but also because the husband has an affair with the wife s best friend, the wife s best friend has lost a baby and she goes on to abduct the once happy couples child. Too much more info would give the ...