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    Audiobook (abridged)9 hours

    Sheer Abandon

    Written by Penny Vincenzi

    Narrated by Rosalyn Landor

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 8, 2007
    ISBN9780739343227
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    • 3/5
      Finished this book yesterday. At one time I was really wondering why I kept on reading but after posting that, 1 day ago, I knew why. This book has its very good phases and some very boring ones. I liked the last 3/4th of the book and there was one thing I did not see coming. I like to be surprised and she managed to do that after all. Of course I did figure out who the mom and dad of kate were, very soon as most of the readers did, so being surprised was a nice thing which I did not expect anymore. Overall I thought it was an OK read.
    • 2/5
      This book could have been good. And I wanted it to be. Unfortunately, it was super freaking long, and not in a good way, like you wish books you LIKE were never ending, but in a horrible way- similar to rush hour traffic or the wait for your vacation to finally get here. During part three, I got the distinct feeling that she ended the book SEVERAL TIMES and then thought- or wait, let's add another twist!! Ugh.
    • 2/5
      Sheer Abandon is a soap opera in print. The reader knows that the characters will all be tied together somehow by the baby abandoned in an airport in the first chapter. Tension is built throughout the story but many of the plot developments are unbelievable coincidence though not always predictable. Vincenzi creates a very British setting with tabloid journalists, a failing health care system, and a budding new political party to challenge the establishment. Very little sex and language for such a long book about so many couples. An okay read if you like over-the-top drama with a British bent.
    • 5/5
      I had seen this author's books all the time but never got the inclination to read her. I borrowed this book from my local library as I could find nothing else. I am now hooked on her novels. This book was impossible to put down. It was a riveting read.
    • 5/5
      I'm an admitted anglophile, so I was drawn into the narrative immediately, it just sounds so British. I could hear their accents in my head as I read. I became interested and committed to each of the main characters and their journeys to find happiness and their place in the world. Their stories keep you turning the pages almost as much as the continuing mystery surrounding the abandoned baby and who her mother will turn out to be.
    • 4/5
      Wonderful women characters, Penny Vincenzi takes you right into their lives and I couldn't wait for the mystery to be solved. I am captivated by her writing and look forward to reading ALL her books
    • 3/5
      Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow Airport in 1985 as they are starting off onseparate backpacking adventures, and they decide to spend a few days together in Thailand.
    • 4/5
      A baby abandoned in Heathrow Airport in 1986... Did the teen mother grow up to be the... workaholic attorney, the shy doctor or the party animal tabloid reporter.... Very pop fiction theme... at times predictable, long (732 pages) but enjoyable overall.