Book description
Ravenscar: a house, a legacy, a dynasty.
Elizabeth Turner, scion of the fabled Deravenel family, carries the
red-gold hair and beautiful English complexion of her ancestors. And it
is not just her colouring that she has inherited from Edward Deravenel.
Astute and charismatic, she is also bold, daring and fiercely ambitious,
with the same ruthless streak.
Now, aged just twenty-five, she stands in the position she has dreamed
of - inheriting the family business, Deravenels. Over eight hundred
years old, the company is a bastion of male chauvinism and the challenge
that lies ahead of Elizabeth is immense.
Her future is threatened also by the bitter enmity of her cousin, Mary,
who believes herself the rightful heir.
Cecil Williams acts as Elizabeth's mentor while navigating the
treacherous corridors of power with her. But her greatest ally is her
childhood friend, handsome, charming Robert Dunley. Highly intelligent,
he is her match in every way - and there is a spark between them that is
impossible to resist. Yet Robert is already married. When they begin an
affair it scandalises those around them. But far worse is to come…
From the family seat perched high on the Yorkshire moors to the glamour
of London as the twentieth century draws to a close, Elizabeth fights
for her birthright and her inheritance. Passion, drama, betrayal and
death stalk the pages of this gripping new blockbuster from the author
of A Woman of Substance. Praise for Barbara Taylor Bradford:
'The storyteller of substance' The Times
'Queen of the genre' Sunday Times
'Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping
the reader turning the page. She is one of the world's best at spinning
yarns' Guardian
'Memorable and moving…a sure-fire winner' Express Barbara Taylor
Bradford was born in Leeds, and by the age of twenty was an editor and
columnist on Fleet Street. Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became
an enduring bestseller and was followed by twenty-one others, including
the bestselling Harte series. In 2006 The Ravenscar Dynasty began an
epic new family series around Ravenscar and the house of Deravenel.
Barbara's books have sold more than eighty-one million copies worldwide
in more than ninety countries and forty languages, and ten mini-series
and television movies have been made of her books. In 2007 Barbara was
appointed an OBE by the Queen for her services to literature. She lives
in New York City with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford.
This is her twenty-fourth novel.
