num_pages: 724
description: From the Sunday Times bestselling author Penny Vincenzi, NO ANGEL is the first novel in the acclaimed Spoils of Time trilogy. 'Penny Vincenzi dazzlingly combines the old-fashioned virtues of gripping storytelling with the up-to-the-minute contemporary feel for emotional depth and insight into the lives of the characters. She is a supreme stylist and clever writer. Reading her is an addictive experience'-Elizabeth Buchan. For any reader of Jilly Cooper, Harriet Evans or Santa Montefiore. In pre-war London, Lady Celia Lytton is the perfect host. Beautiful, intelligent and determined, she throws glittering parties, publishes bestselling books, and enjoys her young family and loving husband. But there are tragedies her family will not the Titanic, the First World War, the flu epidemic. And beneath their perfect image, the Lyttons cannot ignore the changing world around them. In the shattering aftermath of the War, Celia is beginning to understand that there will be a price to pay for the life she has chosen, that is greater than she could ever have imagined...
language: English
title: No Angel
titlecomplete: No Angel (The Spoils of Time, #1)
characters: Bunty Winnington, Peter Briscoe, Anthony Buchanan, Miss Prentice, St Christopher, Mr Hardacre, Mrs Conley, Millicent Brooke, Cheyne Walk, Edgar Green, Roger Bartlett, Elizabeth I of England, Nathaniel Betts, Stuart Bailey, Jonathan Elliott, Muriel Marchant, Edgar Robert, Jenny Paget, Howard Shaw, Paul Davis, Janet Gould, Ted Miller, Matthew Brunning, Gwendolyn Oliphant, James Sharpe, Mr Edgar Lytton, Jeremy Bateson, Master Giles
genres: Family, Fiction, British Literature, World War I, Historical, Drama, Chick Lit, War, Historical Fiction, Romance
ratings_count: 7577
series: The Spoils of Time
publisher: Headline Review