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Something Dangerous

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Headline, Sep 4, 2008 - Fiction - 736 pages
The 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...

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Review: Something Dangerous (The Spoils of Time #2)

User Review  - Katie Ryan - Goodreads

I LOVE Penny Vincenzi - it's official. I had read the first book in this series about 4 years ago and loved her then, and I love her now. The details of the first book were a little foggy but they ... Read full review

Review: Something Dangerous (The Spoils of Time #2)

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Another one of Penny Vincenzi's remarkable novels - this time, new characters, and more thrilling plot. This is an enchanting novel with unbelievable twists as the plot weaves you into the story. My ...

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About the author (2008)

Penny Vincenzi is one of the UK’s best-loved and most popular authors. Since her first novel, Old Sins, was published in 1989, she has written fourteen bestselling novels, most recently The Best of Times and the number one bestseller An Absolute Scandal.

Her first ‘proper’ job was at the Harrods Library, aged sixteen, after which she went to secretarial college. She joined the Mirror and later became a journalist, writing for The Times, the Daily Mail and Cosmopolitan amongst many others, before turning to fiction. Several years later, over seven million copies of Penny’s books have been sold worldwide and she is universally held to be the ‘doyenne of the modern blockbuster’ (Glamour).

Penny Vincenzi has four daughters, and divides her time between London and Gower, South Wales.

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