This book was gripping from beginning to end. Totally enthralling reading, once you pick it up you find it hard to put it down. A book of suspense that keeps you wondering from the first page to the last. This author goes from strength to strength and just leaves the reader wanting more. You ... Read review
The night before her lavish wedding to Oliver Bergin, Cressida Forrest went to bed serene ... more
and happy. By morning, she had vanished. Shocked and anxious, the two families face a long and painful day of revelations, as a complex, fragile web of sexual, marital and financial secrets is ripped apart by Cressida's disappearance.
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Advantages: A book with everything you want, and one you will enjoy reading again Disadvantages: Don't pick this up if you are in a rush, hard to put down.
This book was gripping from beginning to end. Totally enthralling reading, once you pick it up you find it hard to put it down. A book of suspense that keeps you wondering from the first page to the last. This author goes from strength to strength and just leaves the reader wanting more. You feel you can relate to the characters in her book and go along the roller coaster ride with them.
All in all, an excellent book which I couldn't put down. ... more
This book was gripping from beginning to end. Totally enthralling reading, once you pick it up you find it hard to put it down. A book of suspense that keeps you wondering from the first page to the last. This author goes from strength to strength and just leaves the reader wanting more. You feel you can relate to the characters in her book and go along the roller coaster ride with them. All in all, an excellent book which I couldn't put down. From the minute I picked this book up I think it took me all of two days to read it all the way through. This book has everything you could wish for and more. Sex, scandal, love, romance, sadness, sorrow.
Advantages: is the ultimate holiday book Disadvantages: may take over your life til you finish it
this book is the ultimate holiday book or just the ordinary reading material, it is an excellant size for relaxing sunbathing in the sun and gives you great pleasure in doing so. the book is most definately a women's classic, touching on family issues and women's thoughts, feelings and emotions. the title is fitted very well as the exciting drama unfolds you feel like you are hiding a dirty secret yourself. this is a classic pennyvincenzi book as it has the ability to make you feel as if you need to read on and on, it relly is that intriguing with out being too over possessive. the storyof family affairs and many links to the past appeal to all ages of adult women. ...
Advantages: great characters, a good mystery!! Disadvantages: none at all
First published in 2005 by Headling Book Publishing.
ISBN: 0 7553 2083 2
RRP: £6.99
Pages: 720
~~PennyVincenzi, Sheer Abandon~~
At first glance looks too thick a book to plough through!But trust me its worth the effort.
~The Characters~
The story is set around three glamorous women, friends who met at the beginning of their travels as students in 1985;
Martha: a single woman, far too career minded to bother with men at the moment! A highly paid lawyer.
Clio: Unhappily married to a surgeon, a very clever character also a doctor.
Jocasta: In love with a man who won't commit, looking for another!The wild one of the bunch, unpredictable. She is a newspaper reporter.
~The Plot~
Parts of the prologue I think help to explain the beginning, quoted from the book:
Prologue, August, 1986: "She couldn ...
Advantages: A light but intriguing read Disadvantages: none!
This is the first book I have read by PennyVincenzi and I was not disappointed at all. In fact I found it an incredibly enjoyable but intriguing read! This is one of her earlier books though, written in 1995, and it always seems strange these days to read a fairly contemporary novel where there are no mobile phones! It goes to show how even novels become dated!
Anyway, back to 'Another Woman'. I was firstly drawn to the title, wondering who indeed was this 'another woman'. It turns out that she is Cressida, who disappears mysteriously the night before her lavish wedding is due to take place. Interestingly, we never meet Cressida in the story, although she is about somewhere at the beginning. In fact this story is not really about Cressida at all - it is about her family and friends, their complex relationships with her and their ...
