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Penny Vincenzi The Spoils of Time Trilogy 3 Books Collection Pack Set RRP: £35.97 (Something Dangerous, No Angel, Into Temptation)

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Windfall is highly recommended it is ‘unputdownable’, it is many way a guilty pleasure, with many late nights included. These are three best books by Penny Vincenzi. No Angel (2000), Something Dangerous (2001), Into Temptation (2002) Something Dangerous: It is the second novel in the series The Spoils of Time published in 2009. The book describes two beautiful Lytton twins Venetia and Adele who are born and raised into the Great Lytton Empire. These twins are wealthy and admired but have confidence based on arrogance and it is 1928, the duos are celebrating their 18th birthday. However, with the growing influence of Nazi Germany, their world is shrunk and darkened in some unimaginable ways. It is not the twin’s lives that have been changed, also for Barty Miller, rescued from the London slums as a baby by Cecilia Lytton she now faces the greatest temptation of her life- one of the most unexpected type. One of the other characters in the book, Graydon Townsend, a journalist who begins investigating Bard in the hopes of getting a big story, was probably my favorite character. His own life is torn apart and he develops as a character as he investigates Bard.

She met her future husband, named Paul Robert Vincenzi (who was an advertising executive and the son of Dr. Julius Vincenzi of Earls Colne, Essex) at the age of nineteen. They had four daughters after marrying on May 27, 1960. He died in 2009 from a brain tumor. Vincenzi’s agent, Clare Alexander, said: “Her special gift as a novelist was her love for her characters, and that came from her deep interest in not only the people in her imagination, but also in pretty well everyone she ever met. I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The experiences of Drs. Cassia and Edward Tallow was a profound read. I feel certain many people have wondered at least once ... what their lives would be with access to unlimited resources. Woman do not graduate 👨‍🎓 from medical 🏥 school in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 England during the 1920s and they certainly do not out perform their male partners.

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Set in a very interesting period of history - between the two world wars - this is a real look at life when money comes unexpectedly, giving choices where there were none before. It really shows, in Vincenzi's own unique way, the battle women had not only to be noticed, but to be noticed as able to do things, be it work as a doctor, succeed as a wife, be what they're expected to be in essence. It also touches on many other subjects, not least the views at the time of homosexuality and depression, both of which were sadly so different from what we see today. I feel simply the commentary on life at the time, even without the stories of the characters, is worth five stars. Kit Lytton, blinded during his early twenties in service for the RAF, comes to terms with the fact that his dad isn’t Oliver Lytton which he first believed. However, it’s Sebastian Brooke, the children’s author. His sense of betrayal is huge, however worse is the fact that the woman he loves is in fact his sister. Old Sins” is the first stand alone novel and was released in the year 1989. Power. Two stylish, clever, and ambitious ladies fight for control of one multi-million dollar cosmetics empire. Mystery. What could the secret that lies behind its ruthless, charming, and mysterious creator, named Julian Morell? And why would he split the family inheritance between a complete stranger and his family when he dies? Her break as a novelist came when she was commissioned to interview Cooper. As she finished her questions, Vincenzi quipped: “I want to write this kind of nonsense too.” Cooper introduced Vincenzi to her agent, Desmond Elliott. Her debut novel, Old Sins, was cooked up over a long lunch with Elliott at Fortnum & Mason in 1988. It was bought by Anthony Cheetham at Century Hutchinson for a six-figure advance on the basis of the first three chapters and marked Vincenzi’s move from journalism, a career she had pursued since leaving a “ posh secretarial college in London” for Vogue nearly three decades before.

Penelope Vincenzi (née Hannaford; 10 April 1939 – 25 February 2018) was a British novelist, who wrote 17 novels and 2 collections of stories. [1] Her sales by 2014 amounted to over 7 million copies. [2] Early life [ edit ] Penny Vincenzi in 2007: never a diva, she kept scrupulously to deadlines and took a personal interest in the lives of those with whom she worked. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian Glamor. Here are the designer interiors, the pictures, jewels, to-die-for couture, and cars of the rich and super-rich. It is the fabulous and glittering world that Julian created for himself, and the six powerful ladies that each loved him. Passion. A love story, sexy, poignant tempestuous that spans three decades. A mistress, mom, a daughter, and a wife, however always overshadowed by some old sins.

Spellbound by these evocative and intimate stories, we watch while fate takes its course and the far-reaching effects of this crash while it ripples through hundreds of people’s lives.

No Angel” is the first novel in the “Spoils of Time” series and was released in the year 2000. This is a saga of family politics, power, and passion. Penny started her career as a junior secretary for Vogue magazine in the year 1962, and went on to work for Tatler, The Daily Mirror, and later as a Fashion and Beauty Editor on magazines like Woman’s Own, Honey, and Nova. After working for a year with The Daily Mirror, was working under Marjorie Proops, the women’s editor, who knowing about her journalistic ambitions, allowed her to aid in small tasks and research. Then she became a Deputy Editor of Options and Contributing Editor of Cosmopolitan.

Celia Lytton is the strong-willed and beautiful daughter of some wealthy aristocrats and she has grown accustomed of getting her own way. She moves through life making some tough and often dangerous choices that affect herself as well as others. It was the fashion world that provided material for Vincenzi’s novels, which featured indomitable women fighting men in the boardroom to rescue glamorous businesses from the brink of collapse and, in the process, falling in love. Penny Vincenzi, who died in 2018, was one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors. Since her first book, Old Sins, was first published Her family, Headline and her agent Clare Alexander are sad to announce the death of their beloved Penny Vincenzi who died peacefully on February 25th. Barty Miller now is in the curious position of owning a majority share of Lyttons, the publishing house that belongs to the family that raised her. Now powerful and rich, yet alone, she is far away from the cowed slum kid rescued by Celia Lytton years ago. However how’s she going to act now toward the family that always made her feel like she didn’t belong? And what sort of secrets are still in the Lytton past just waiting to be uncovered? Like Oliver (her husband) and their kids, as well as Sylvia Miller, whose life becomes transformed by Celia’s intrusion. There’s also Oliver’s daunting older sister that ain’t that she seems to be and Sebastian Brooke, for whom Celia makes the most dangerous choice of all.

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