A number-one bestseller from one of Britain's most popular novelists, Sheer Aban
don is an all-consuming story revolving around the consequences of a desperate a
ct . . .
Martha, Clio, and Jocasta meet by chance at Heathrow airport in 198
5 as they are starting off on separate backpacking adventures, and they decide t
o spend the first few days of their trips together in Thailand. When they go the
ir separate ways, they vow to get together in London the following year. But man
y years pass before the three cross paths again, and the once-capricious, carefr
ee 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-bo
rn daughter at Heathrow.
