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Penny Vincenzi, master of the contemporary blockbuster, returns with a moving, engaging portrait of people coping with a notorious financial disaster and its unpredictable emotional repercussions.
Doubleday
June 2008
On Sale: June 10, 2008
592 pages
ISBN: 0385519893
EAN: 9780385519892
Hardcover
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Fiction | Contemporary
Set during the
boom-and-bust years of the 1980s, An Absolute Scandal
follows the lives of a group of people drawn together by
their mutual monetary woes when the great financial
institution Lloyd's undergoes a devastating downturn. For
Nigel Cowper, this means the destruction of his family
business; his wife, Lucinda, is willing to do everything she
can to help him—except give up her irresistible lover. The
powerful, charismatic banker Simon Beaumont and his wife, a
highly successful advertising executive, lose everything
they worked so hard to acquire; but the ultimate tragedy is
something that neither one could have anticipated. The
well-to-do are not the only ones suffering: a
self-sufficient widow is suddenly deep in debt; a single
mother struggles to maintain a comfortable home for her
children; and a schoolmaster and his frustrated wife find
that financial problems deepen the cracks in their troubled
marriage.
As their lives begin a downward spiral,
these characters intersect in ways they never saw coming.
Written in what has become her signature style of both wit
and candor, Penny Vincenzi draws back the curtain and offers
an inside view of the greed and social power plays that
occur behind the closed doors of upper-crust society . . .
where money isn’t everything. Sometimes, it’s the only
thing.
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