Book description
Forbidden Places is about love and marriage, families and secrets, and
about wartime and what it does to every accepted social value. It is the
story of three women and one family. One is married and widowed within
five years. She is free to start again. Or is she? The second has a
perfect husband she thinks she loves. He becomes a grotesque parody of
what he once was. Is that love real? The third becomes trapped in a
nightmare marriage. Can the war free her? Penny Vincenzi is one of the
UK's best-loved and most popular authors. Since her first novel, Old
Sins, was published in 1989, she has written fourteen bestselling
novels, most recently The Best of Times and the number one bestseller An
Absolute Scandal.
Her first 'proper' job was at the Harrods Library, aged sixteen, after
which she went to secretarial college. She joined the Mirror and later
became a journalist, writing for The Times, the Daily Mail and
Cosmopolitan amongst many others, before turning to fiction. Several
years later, over seven million copies of Penny's books have been sold
worldwide and she is universally held to be the 'doyenne of the modern
blockbuster' (Glamour).
Penny Vincenzi has four daughters, and divides her time between London
and Gower, South Wales.
