"Every book has an Act Three, a
turning point when something happens that means nothing can ever be the same
again.”
Penny Vincenzi
(April 1939)
Fun Facts about:
Vincenzi came to the novel via long-form
journalism and journalism via a smart secretarial school that was the only
established route into magazines for an ambitious girl who at age nine produced
her own type-written magazine in triplet copies and sold them at school for two
pence.
In Vincenzi's fictional worlds, death
and grief serve as turning points, an act three as she describes it, when
nothing can ever be the same.
In a list of the top-selling British
authors of the past decade, compiled by Nielsen BookScan, in which crime and
women's and children's fiction dominated, Vincenzi outsold Charles Dickens,
Jackie Collins and A.A. Milne.
