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No Angel

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Headline, Sep 4, 2008 - Fiction - 736 pages
Celia Lytton, strong-willed, tough and courageous, moves through life making difficult and often dangerous decisions - with the most far-reaching consequences for everyone. For her husband, Oliver, head of the great family publishing house of Lyttons; for Sylvia Miller, whose life of relentless poverty is transformed by Celia's intrusion; for Oliver's daunting elder sister, who is not all she appears to be; and for Sebastian Brooke, with whom Celia makes the most dangerous decision of all.

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I won't give away the ending but it was too happy. - Goodreads
I was intrigued by all of the strong women characters. - Goodreads
Plus there really was no plot at all. - Goodreads

Review: No Angel (The Spoils of Time #1)

User Review  - Melissa - Goodreads

I was so into this book when I first started it. But it became clear to me that it was the kind of book that would never end. It dragged on and on and on. The years passed so slowly, then they would ... Read full review

Review: No Angel (The Spoils of Time #1)

User Review  - Anam Ali - Goodreads

I've had a fondness for the Lyttons for quite some time, I read the third book of this saga ages ago. And even knowing what's going to happen to each and every one, I found book one still quite ... Read full review

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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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