Penny Vincenzi Livres

Londres, début du XXe siècle. Celia, 18 ans, belle aristocrate, épouse contre l'avis de ses parents un roturier, Oliver Lytton, héritier d'une maison d'édition. Malgré une situation confortable, la jeune femme n'entend pas gâcher ses talents en restant au foyer : elle sera éditrice, envers et contre tous. Compagne au charme irrésistible, mère aimante, Celia, dont le savoir-faire est indéniable, fait prospérer l'entreprise familiale et trouve aussi le temps de s'engager dans la lutte sociale aux côtés de Petite Marguerite, sa belle-sœur et meilleure amie. Et quand éclate la Grande Guerre, elle se révèle redoutable femme de pouvoir, seule aux commandes de l'empire Lytton qui va devoir affronter les drames et les déchirements d'une époque en plein chaos...

Celia dirige avec poigne sa maison d'édition mais peine à contrôler le destin de ses cinq enfants. Barty, sa fille adoptive, quitte la maison, ne supportant pas l'amour que lui porte son frère aîné... Mais surtout, elle se sent tiraillée entre sa gratitude envers sa famille et la conscience qu'elle n'en fera jamais vraiment partie.

The House of Farrell - home of The Cream , an iconic face product that has seen women flocking to its bijoux flagship store in the Berkeley Arcade since 1953.At Farrell, you can rely on the personal touch. The legendary Athina Farrell remains the company's figurehead and in her kingdom at the Berkeley Arcade, Florence Hamilton plies their cosmetics with the utmost discretion. She is sales advisor - and holder of secrets - extraordinaire.But of course the world of cosmetics is changing and the once glorious House of Farrell is now in decline, its customers tempted away by more fashionable brands.Enter Bianca Bailey, formidable business woman, mother of three, and someone who always gets her way. Athina and Bianca lock horns over the future of the House of Farrell but it is the past that tells its devastating tale of ambition and ego, passion and wonder.Here is a tale of survival ... and a kind of promise.

IN A WORLD CHANGED FOREVER THE MOST DANGEROUS CHOICES ARE MADEThe 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.Following on from the bestselling No Angel, Something Dangerous is a riveting drama and a fascinating love story.

ANOTHER WOMAN The night before her lavish wedding to Oliver Bergin, Cressida Forrest went to bed serene and happy. By morning she had vanished - without apparent cause, and without trace. Shocked, the two families face a long and painful day of revelations. FORBIDDEN PLACES Forbidden Places is about love and marriage, families and secrets, and about wartime and what it does to every accepted social value.

Penny Vincenzi's Sunday Times No 1 bestseller, FORBIDDEN PLACES is an unmissable novel about love and marriage, families and secrets, and about wartime and what it does to every accepted social value. 'Deliciously readable' Mail on Sunday. A mesmerising novel perfect for any reader of Jilly Cooper, Santa Montefiore, Kate Morton or Harriet Evans. 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?

From the author of An Outrageous Affair comes this contemporary saga of two dynasties. They become helplessly entwined when a brother and two sisters discover that they all have different fathers, none of them Alexander, Earl of Caterham, who was married to their mother for 20 years.

When a man is faced with a dilemma that threatens his principles, his reputation, his marriage and a child, what choices will he make? An irresistible novel from the No 1 bestselling Penny Vincenzi.

A family affair. In more ways than one. The irresistible new novel from the No. 1 bestselling Penny Vincenzi.

From her sweeping novels to her searing journalism, Penny Vincenzi has been writing all her life, and this is a collection of her work brought together in a single edition for the first time. As well as ten stunning short stories, Penny also shares some of her thoughts on a huge range of subjects from love and relationships to work and families, and gives us a peek at the tantalising first chapter of her new novel, A KIND OF PROMISE - making LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON AND OTHER DELIGHTS a must-have for any Vincenzi fan.