Book Details
Title: Sheer Abandon
Author: Penny Vincenzi
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Headline
Year: 2005
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 632
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-7553-2081-6
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact and good condition. Some wear to extremities (corners and edges), through rubbing. There are a couple of small tears, creases and rolling on edges. There are tears to corners. Superficial scuffing and a couple of marks here and there. There is an old sales sticker on the right top corner of the front cover.
The hardcover is very good condition. There is very little shelf wear. Little crushing/bumping to edges/corners. Embossing on spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"One night in1986 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 return home.
But it would be a long time before they met again: not until Kate, the foundling, is a teenager, and the three women are all living successful lives. Martha is a fiercely single, highly paid corporate lawyer, Clio is a doctor, locked in an unhappy marriage to a surgeon, and Jocasta a reporter for a tabloid newspaper, in clove 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?
Kate, adopted by a loving family, is desperate to find her birth mother. Engagingly stroppy, ferociously independent, with no clues to follow and against a great deal of kindly and well-meaning advice, she refuses absolutely to give in. Gradually the four lives are drawn together. Jocasta, Martha and Clio rediscover one another and their friendship, and - against considerable odds - Kate finds what she thinks she wants.
Set against a background of newspaper journalism and politics, and the exhilarating freedom of the backpackers' trail, 'Sheer Abandon' is perhaps the most exciting and intriguing of all Penny Vincenzi's novels so far."
Book Details
Title: Sheer Abandon
Author: Penny Vincenzi
Illustrator: N/A
Publisher: Headline
Year: 2005
Impression/Edition: N/A
Cover: Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Pages: 632
Dimensions:
Weight:
ISBN: 0-7553-2081-6
Battle Scars:
Overall good condition.
Outside:
The dust jacket is intact and good condition. Some wear to extremities (corners and edges), through rubbing. There are a couple of small tears, creases and rolling on edges. There are tears to corners. Superficial scuffing and a couple of marks here and there. There is an old sales sticker on the right top corner of the front cover.
The hardcover is very good condition. There is very little shelf wear. Little crushing/bumping to edges/corners. Embossing on spine remains intact and legible.
The page margins (seen when book is closed) are clean.
Inside:
The binding is firm and intact.
Inside the front and back covers is clean.
The pages are clean and intact.
Don't forget to check the photos below for a visual and make sure you are happy prior to purchase. Happy to answer questions if there is information missing.
Book Content:
Blurb -
"One night in1986 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 return home.
But it would be a long time before they met again: not until Kate, the foundling, is a teenager, and the three women are all living successful lives. Martha is a fiercely single, highly paid corporate lawyer, Clio is a doctor, locked in an unhappy marriage to a surgeon, and Jocasta a reporter for a tabloid newspaper, in clove 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?
Kate, adopted by a loving family, is desperate to find her birth mother. Engagingly stroppy, ferociously independent, with no clues to follow and against a great deal of kindly and well-meaning advice, she refuses absolutely to give in. Gradually the four lives are drawn together. Jocasta, Martha and Clio rediscover one another and their friendship, and - against considerable odds - Kate finds what she thinks she wants.
Set against a background of newspaper journalism and politics, and the exhilarating freedom of the backpackers' trail, 'Sheer Abandon' is perhaps the most exciting and intriguing of all Penny Vincenzi's novels so far."
