Dimensions
158 x 240 x 55mm
Set against a background of newspaper journalism, politics and the freewheeling life of backpackers' Thailand, 'Sheer Abandon' is perhaps the most exciting and intriguing of all Penny Vincenzi's novels so far.
One night in 1987 an abandoned baby girl is found in a cleaning cupboard at Heathrow airport. A year earlier, three girls, Martha, Clio and Jocasta, had met by chance at the start of a backpacking adventure; they travelled together briefly and then separated to go their different ways, swearing to meet again when they returned home. But it would be a long time until they met again: not until Kate, the foundling, is a teenager, and the three women are all leading successful lives.
Martha is a fiercely single, highly paid corporate lawyer; Clio a doctor, locked in an unhappy marriage to a surgeon; and Jocasta a reporter for a tabloid newspaper, in love with a charming commitment-phobe. Which of them is Kate's mother? Why was she desperate enough to do such a thing, and how did she survive it?
