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Windfall: A Novel
Windfall: A Novel
Windfall: A Novel
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Windfall: A Novel

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Be careful what you wish for. Inheriting a fortune propels one woman into a whirlwind of ambition, temptation, glamour—and deception.

Sensible Cassia Tallow is married to a doctor for seven years when she inherits a large amount of money from her godmother. This enables her to leave her old life behind and embark on a new life filled with danger and passion. This is Penny Vincenzi at her utmost.

“Once again, Vincenzi delivers grade-A entertainment.” —Publishers Weekly

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“The doyenne of the modern blockbuster.” —Glamour

“Soap opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things humming.” —People

“Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial women’s fiction like Vincenzi.” —USA Today

“Will draw you in against your better judgment and keep you awake reading all night.” —The Boston Globe

“Vincenzi does it again with another captivating and entertaining family saga that combines power, riches, lies, and greed . . . For fans of Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel.” —Library Journal
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Release dateSep 7, 2010
ISBN9781590207871
Windfall: A Novel

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Loving this. Great character depiction and she writes so well, I enjoy every page. Reading it very slowly because it's my break time book at work.
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    A typically engrossing Vincenzi novel - about an inheritance that changes a life.
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    Set in 1930’s London, Cassia has always wanted to be a doctor but becoming pregnant by her medical school lover moves her onto the wife/motherhood path, and she tries to be gracious while her husband, a less worthy candidate for a medical practice, lives out a diminished version of her dreams. All that changes when she unexpectedly receives a windfall, a large inheritance from her entrancing but troubled godmother. Now Cassia can tentatively reenter the sophisticated society she left behind when she became a country doctor’s wife, and start to do some good by providing birth control and medical care for working class women who have already had too many babies. Her husband is not pleased, but author Penny Vincenzi is very good at arousing readers’ sympathy and understanding for even her most incorrigible or infuriating characters. The panoply of smart, talented, urbane characters that fill the book make excellent company and they each find their most suitable, though sometimes surprising, mate or destiny by the end. These characters wrestle with their choices as Edward VIII is facing a similar struggle, trying to balance love and duty while making a decision about marrying American divorcée Wallis Simpson.

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