Windfall
The stunning bestselling novel of temptation, ambition and desire
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4.1 • 7 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Penny Vincenzi's WINDFALL is a rich, absorbing tale of temptation, ambition and desire.
'Reading her is an addictive experience' Elizabeth Buchan
Be careful what you wish for...
Cassia Fallon has always been the perfect country doctor's wife, performing daily tasks with willingness and grace, even though her desire to become a doctor herself has been thwarted by lack of money. Then one June day in 1935, just as she's scrubbing the altar steps, she learns that she has inherited half a million pounds.
Now Cassia is finally free to do as she pleases, and resumes her own medical career as Dr Cassia Tallow with a passion. But her legacy may not be such a blessing after all, for Cassia begins to question the strength of her marriage, her future and exactly where the money has come from.
'There's only one name that continues to reign supreme. Penny Vincenzi' Glamour
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The British have coined a term for the kind of novels Vincenzi writes: bonkbusters. Her most recent one to appear stateside is a prime example: fast-paced, well-written and full of sex. It's set in 1930s London, where the very rich drink champagne with Edward VIII and the Mountbattens, while the poor have too many babies, nonexistent health care and can only afford to follow the antics of their royal family on the radio. Cassia Tallow, trained as a doctor but playing wife and mother when we first meet her, inherits a fortune from her glamorous godmother. The windfall thrusts Cassia back into a world of high society, high fashion and old lovers. It also gives her the opportunity to go back to practicing medicine and ministering to working-class women, which her husband has prevented her from doing. But when Cassia begins to suspect that the money may not be rightfully hers, she goes to dangerous lengths to find the truth. Once again, Vincenzi delivers grade-A entertainment.
Customer Reviews
Best book ever.
This is the only book I have read more than once. Indeed, it is my go to book for when I need a story that can so completely captivate me even after having already read it.