Headline, UK, 2007. Trade Paperback. Good. Trade Paperback. 756 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Headline, UK, 2007. *** CONDITION: This book is in good condition. More specifically: Covers have moderate creasing. Edges of covers have moderate edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine has heavy reading creases. . Edges of pages are slightly soiled. Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: It was one of the biggest scandals of the 80s. Lloyds. It started with just a few requests for money from various Names. And then the demands got bigger. And bigger. Until thousands of people found their lives ruined and relationships wrecked. All because of money. An Absolute Scandal is the ultimate story of the rise and fall in the fortunes of a group of people - and the scandal whose effects were felt across the board. With devastating results ... *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Romance & Women's Fiction; ISBN/EAN: 9780755320851. Inventory No: 21020342.. 9780755320851

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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. 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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Bookseller: Manyhills Books (AU)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 21020342
Title: An Absolute Scandal
Author: Penny Vincenzi
Format/Binding: Trade Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0755320859
ISBN 13: 9780755320851
Publisher: Headline
Place of Publication: UK
Date Published: 2007
Keywords: BZDB5 Fiction; An Absolute Scandal
Bookseller catalogs: Romance & Women's Fiction; Fiction;

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