Penny Vincenzi

A Twitter feed to celebrate Penny Vincenzi - one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors

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What was the best present you received? Did you fall in love with anything as Penny did with a Chanel jacket: https://t.co/RIHl2knIe4 https://t.co/RIHl2knIe4

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When talking about the secret of her hugely successful career, Penny once said: “I believe the secret to a great book is wonderful characters.” Could you choose a favourite from Penny’s incredible collection of books?

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He’s the charismatic, ambitious and passionate leading man in Penny’s A QUESTION OF TRUST. Tom Knelston is the man to watch in 1950s London. You can find out more about A QUESTION OF TRUST and Penny’s other books over at... https://t.co/6XTHj0tVzU

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On THE SPOILS OF TIME trilogy, Penny wrote, “Most of all I loved the Lytton family; and especially, of course Lady Celia Lytton, the difficult, despotic glorious matriarch, her lovers, her children and her... https://t.co/Vn6veNnRI4

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“She’s hell-bent on getting what she wants.” In this clip we learn all about Penny’s breathtakingly headstrong leading lady in A QUESTION OF TRUST. What did you think of Diana Southcott? And don’t forget that you... https://t.co/muM9gQ2B09

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It was the era of Capri pants and kitten heels as well as back-seam stockings and pencil skirts. Penny’s novels A PERFECT HERITAGE, FORBIDDEN PLACES and AN OUTRAGEOUS AFFAIR all showcase life in the 1950s. Which one do you think captured the fifties best and why?

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When war starts in Penny’s FORBIDDEN PLACES, Clarissa works as a driver for the Women's Royal Naval Service and is promoted to Leading Wren. By the end of the war, W.R.N.S. numbers were at their peak, reaching 74,000, and included roles as Radio... https://t.co/nTmU3QkAkl

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Penny’s epic ‘The Spoils of Time Trilogy’ – NO ANGEL, SOMETHING DANGEROUS and INTO TEMPTATION – takes us from pre-war London and Edwardian house parties to the poverty-wracked slums of London, the suffragette... https://t.co/Rs59z4Pgi1

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“London was in a party mood, and very busy in every way; bombed theatres were being rebuilt, and galleries and museums reopened” Penny’s description of post-war London in her first novel OLD SINS shows us what life was like for the people who endured... https://t.co/TA63sH5EcV

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The big question in Penny’s AN ABSOLUTE SCANDAL is: What do you do when you lose everything? In WINDFALL, Penny asks: What would you do if, first time in your life, you can do anything you like? And in FORBIDDEN... https://t.co/eUi7WoLgbL

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When talking about the secret of her hugely successful career, Penny once said: “I believe the secret to a great book is wonderful characters.” Could you choose a favourite from Penny’s amazing line-up of... https://t.co/MRb874fJ4O

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A rich line-up of characters, a dangerous and passionate love affair, and a classic backdrop of 1950s London marks out A QUESTION OF TRUST as Penny Vincenzi at her absolute finest. We are so thrilled to reveal this gorgeous cover for the paperback edition, out in September.

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Yes, I take it all back. The world is definitely going mad. https://t.co/Xr8dhhgTYc

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Jon Snow’s tie tonight has to be his all-time winner...

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@jojomoyes did you know you can have that done (ie prof cleaned) to you oven as well? How spoiling is that?!

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I should have added @emilygunnis’s book, The Girl in the Letter is edge-of-the-seat brilliant.

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I’m so proud of my daughter @emilygunnis whose first book The Girl in the Letter (a thriller) is being published in September.

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@NinaLockwood Nina, I do hope you enjoy it and thankyou for counting me as a guilty pleasure. (Not the first time I’ve been called that)

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Giles Coren in The Times today: beyond brilliant.

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@ciarale01 dearest Ciara, I am so so sorry to have cancelled. Something I v rarely do. But in hospital with a fractured vertebrae-v nasty!x