In for a Penny, in for a good romp of a read

Vincenzi’s 16th door-stopper (it’s 756 pages), The Decision, revisits the 1960s she knew as a fashion journalist and young wife, says Sue Leonard.

ELIZA was in the middle of curtsying to the Queen when she decided it was time she lost her virginity. So starts The Decision — the 16th door-stopper by Penny Vincenzi. It’s an apt line, setting the book, firmly, on the cusp of the 1960s.