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Doubleday
May 2007
On Sale: May 8, 2007
640 pages
ISBN: 0385519885
EAN: 9780385519885
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Women's Fiction
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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