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Sheer Abandon
by Vincenzi, Penny
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with some edge wear.
- ISBN 10
- 0385519885
- ISBN 13
- 9780385519885
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday, 2007. First U. S. Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with some edge wear.. x, 626 p. Presentation of "The Main Characters". Three young women met at the start of their student travels; one of them abandoned a baby girl at Heathrow a year later. Kate, now a beautiful teenager, sets out to find her birth mother--a quest that unexpectedly brings the women together and exposes this long-buried secret.
Synopsis
A number-one bestseller from one of Britain's most popular novelists, Sheer Abandon is an all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate act . . . Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide to spend the first few days of their trips together in Thailand. When they go their separate ways, they vow to get together in London the following year. But many years pass before the three cross paths again, and the once-capricious, carefree girls now all have thriving careers. One of them, however, harbors a terrible secret: On her return from her pre-college excursion, she abandoned her just-born daughter at Heathrow. Clio has fulfilled her ambition of becoming a doctor, only to find herself trapped in a marriage to an arrogant surgeon who belittles her and her professional achievements. Martha is a highly paid corporate lawyer, just embarking on a political career. Dedicated to her job, she has had little time for personal relationships and lives a busy, but lonely life. Jocasta, a tabloid newspaper reporter with an infallible instinct for the big story, is in love with a charming colleague who can't make the permanent commitment she longs for. The infant abandoned at Heathrow has grown up under the loving care of her adoptive family. Now a beautiful teenager named Kate, she sets out to find her birth mother--a quest that unexpectedly brings the women together and exposes the secret buried so many years before. Impossible to put down, Sheer Abandon is top-notch women's fiction.
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- Ground Zero Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 61098
- Title
- Sheer Abandon
- Author
- Vincenzi, Penny
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in good dust jacket. Signed by author. DJ has slight wear and soiling, with some edge wear.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First U. S. Edition [stated]. First Printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0385519885
- ISBN 13
- 9780385519885
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Feminism, Gender Studies, Heathrow, Backpacking, Thailand, Corporate Lawyer, Doctor, Tabloid, Reporter, Journalist, Jocasta, Clio, Adoption, Birth Mother, Family Relationships, Unwanted Pregnancy, Unwed Motherhood
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