Book description
A riveting novel that begins with a murder in an old Connecticut barn
and reaches its climax on Broadway.
We first meet Katie Byrne at seventeen. A tall beauty with reddish-gold
hair, she has always wanted to be an actress. Her two best friends share
her passion for the theatre, and the three girls have spent much of
their childhood rehearsing plays in an old barn in Connecticut. Leaving
early one day to help her mother prepare dinner, Katie realizes she has
left her schoolbooks at the barn and she and her older brother return to
retrieve them. When they arrive, they find the barn, the setting of so
many happy dreams, has become the scene of a nightmare: one of Katie's
friends has been raped and murdered, and the other lies unconscious.
Ten years later, Katie, a struggling actress in New York, is still
haunted by the tragedy. Her friend Carly remains in a coma, and Katie
desperately wants to achieve success and stardom not only for herself
but also for her two old friends. Her big chance comes when she is
discovered and wins a major role in a Broadway play. A promising love
affair adds to the excitement of working on Broadway; but Katie must
face the demons of the past before she can embrace the possibilities of
the future. 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 Barbara Taylor Bradford was born and raised in
England. She started her writing career on the Yorkshire Evening Post
and later worked as a journalist in London. Her first novel, A Woman of
Substance, became an enduring bestseller and was followed by
twenty-three 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. In October of 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.
