Book description
Reissue of the perenially popular dynastic rags to riches saga to
coincide with the publication of its sequel, Emma's Secret.
In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is
sixteen, single and pregnant.
By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world, ruler of a
business empire stretching from Yorkshire to the glittering cities of
America and the rugged vastness of Australia. But what is the price she
has paid?
A Woman of Substance is as impossible to put down as it is to forget.
This multi-million copy bestseller is truly a novel of our times. 'An
extravagant, absorbing novel of love, courage, ambition, war, death and passion.'
New York Times 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.
