Book description
The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great
Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they
are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the
spectre of Nazi Germany is growing...
Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways - but it
is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed. Barty
Miller, rescued from the London slums in babyhood by Celia Lytton, is
clever, ambitious, and a complete contrast to the twins - and she faces
temptation of the most unexpected kind... 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.
