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Windfall: A Novel by Penny Vincenzi
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Windfall: A Novel (original 1997; edition 2009)

by Penny Vincenzi

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Sensible Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a huge fortune. For the first time in her life, she is able to do exactly as she likes, and she starts to question her marriage, her past, her present, and her future. But where did her inheritance really come from and why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force, one that Cassia cannot resist.… (more)
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Title:Windfall: A Novel
Authors:Penny Vincenzi
Info:Overlook Hardcover (2009), Hardcover, 624 pages
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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. ( )
  lydiasbooks | Jan 17, 2018 |
A typically engrossing Vincenzi novel - about an inheritance that changes a life. ( )
  EvaW | Jul 5, 2017 |
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. ( )
  Jaylia3 | Dec 9, 2010 |
Enjoyable book. Loved the intertwined lives. The historical background and issues related to working women was great. Some things but not much has changed.
  shazjhb | Mar 7, 2010 |
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Sensible Cassia Fallon has been married to her doctor husband for seven years when her godmother leaves her a huge fortune. For the first time in her life, she is able to do exactly as she likes, and she starts to question her marriage, her past, her present, and her future. But where did her inheritance really come from and why? Too soon the windfall has become a corrupting force, one that Cassia cannot resist.

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