AN Outrageous Affair: A Novel

Penny Vincenzi

Overlook, Sep 29, 2009 - Fiction - 624 pages

The latest dramatic bestseller by Overlook?s most popular author Penny Vincenzi?there are over 500,000 copies of Penny?s books in print in the U.S., and millions more worldwide!

A mysterious, tragic accident in the 1950s. An inexplicable suicide twenty years later. What was the strange link between the two?and Caroline Hunterton?s long-buried past? A secret which could not be kept forever, especially from her two daughters, Chloe and Fleur. Fate had separated the sisters in time and distance?but bound them in mutual hatred?until journalist Magnus Phillips decided to tell the story that would tear their lives apart.

Moving from wartime Suffolk to 1950s Hollywood, from glitzy Madison Avenue to London?s theatrical aristocracy and the machinations of checkbook publishing, An Outrageous Affair explores the extraordinary, sometimes fatal, consequences of truth?sure to please Penny?s legions of readers.

About the author

Penny Vincenzi was born Penelope Hannaford in Bournemouth, United Kingdom on April 10, 1939. She attended secretarial college and then joined the staff of the Daily Mirror. She later became a journalist and wrote for numerous publications including The Times, the Daily Mail, Cosmopolitan, Vogue, and the Tattler. Her first novel, Old Sins, was published in 1989. She wrote 17 novels and two short story collections during her lifetime including The Best of Times, An Absolute Scandal, Sheer Abandon, An Outrageous Affair, A Perfect Heritage, A Question of Trust, and the Spoils of Time Trilogy. She died on February 25, 2018 at the age of 78.

Bibliographic information

• Title: AN Outrageous Affair: A Novel
• Author: Penny Vincenzi
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Overlook, 2009
• ISBN: 1590207904, 9781590207901
• Length: 624 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Fiction / Women