A number-one bestseller from one of Britain's most popular novelists,
Sheer Abandon is an all-consuming story revolving around the
consequences of a desperate act . . .
Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 1985 as
they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they
decide to spend the first few days of their trips together in Thailand.
When they go their separate ways, they vow to get together in London the
following year. But many years pass before the three cross paths again,
and the once-capricious, carefree girls now all have thriving careers.
One of them, however, harbors a terrible secret: On her return from her
pre-college excursion, she abandoned her just-born daughter at Heathrow.
Clio has fulfilled her ambition of becoming a doctor, only to find
herself trapped in a marriage to an arrogant surgeon who belittles her
and her professional achievements. Martha is a highly paid corporate
lawyer, just embarking on a political career. Dedicated to her job, she
has had little time for personal relationships and lives a busy, but
lonely life. Jocasta, a tabloid newspaper reporter with an infallible
instinct for the big story, is in love with a charming colleague who
can't make the permanent commitment she longs for. The infant abandoned
at Heathrow has grown up under the loving care of her adoptive family.
Now a beautiful teenager named Kate, she sets out to find her birth
mother--a quest that unexpectedly brings the women together and exposes
the secret buried so many years before.
Impossible to put down, Sheer Abandon is top-notch women's fiction.
