An Absolute Scandal: Money makes a powerful world - until it all comes crashing down
Sep 2008 · Hachette UK
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A searing portrait of wealthy living, scandal and secrets...
'Buy on a Friday, get home, turn off the phone and emerge on Monday replete with a tale well told. Guilty pleasures? We certainly all have them and this is better than most' - Daily Express
There's nothing like the contentment and security that money can bring. That's how it is for Lucinda, Elizabeth and Flora, living the risk-free dream in the glittering eighties. Houses, holidays, happiness - everything is there for the taking.
The financial slide comes crashing into their lives with a vengeance, and everything they've built up so carefully dissolves into a pool of hopelessness, taking self-respect and relationships with it.
Now, the secrets will out and within a year, someone will be dead.
'Buy on a Friday, get home, turn off the phone and emerge on Monday replete with a tale well told. Guilty pleasures? We certainly all have them and this is better than most' - Daily Express
There's nothing like the contentment and security that money can bring. That's how it is for Lucinda, Elizabeth and Flora, living the risk-free dream in the glittering eighties. Houses, holidays, happiness - everything is there for the taking.
The financial slide comes crashing into their lives with a vengeance, and everything they've built up so carefully dissolves into a pool of hopelessness, taking self-respect and relationships with it.
Now, the secrets will out and within a year, someone will be dead.
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3.9
7 reviews
Sally Craft
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December 3, 2024
The 1980's is my absolute favourite decade but I found this book to be a load of pretentious codswallop. It probably doesn’t help that I have zero interest in self-important rich people feeling sorry for themselves. The only thing this book succeeded in doing is fuelling my hate fire. I got no enjoyment from the story at all.
terry buttsworth
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December 15, 2017
It was too drawn out and too much detail.The characters lives jumped around so much that it was hard to keep track.I was glad when it finally finished but I would say that it was reasonable but would not recommend it
A Google user
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January 24, 2019
An absolutely delightful read. One of PV 's best ever
About the author
Penny Vincenzi, who died in 2018, was one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors, known for her epic period and contemporary novels. After her debut, Old Sins, was first published in 1989, she went on to write sixteen more bestselling novels and two collections of stories. She began her career as a junior secretary for Vogue magazine and went on to work at The Daily Mirror, Tatler, and later as a journalist and editor on magazines such as Woman's Own and Cosmopolitan. Over seven million copies of Penny Vincenzi's books have been sold worldwide and she is universally held to be the 'doyenne of the modern blockbuster' (Glamour).
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