Book description
A forgotten past hides the key to the future.
Meredith Stratton, at forty-four the owner of six elegant international
inns, is about to celebrate her daughter's engagement. At this seemingly
happy time in her life she begins to suffer from a strange illness that
baffles everyone. Her doctor cannot find a physical cause for her
debilitating symptoms, and, desperate for answers, she seeks the help of
a psychiatrist. Through therapy Meredith peels back the layers of her
life to discover the truth behind her most careful creation - herself.
Determined to get well, Meredith traces her roots back to another
country where she learns about childhood experiences that dramatically
changed her life. What she discovers is not only the key to the past but
to her future happiness and fulfilment as a woman.
Moving from the Connecticut countryside, the busy streets and suites of
London, Paris and New York, to the pastoral beauty of a château in the
Loire, Her Own Rules is an exciting and suspenseful novel about secrets,
survival, redemption and love. 'Barbara Taylor Bradford is a wonderful
storyteller who can convey the power of love. The warmth and compassion
of her tale brought tears to my jaded old eyes.' Sunday Express
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.
