Book description
In the blockbuster storytelling tradition that is Barbara Taylor
Bradford's hallmark, here is an extraordinary novel about a remarkable
young woman who finds a new life when her old one shatters.
Laura Valiant is a successful art historian, running her own company.
She and her husband, Doug, a Wall Street lawyer, share an idyllic
marriage. But Laura's trust in her husband is shaken when she discovers
he has a secret life apart from her - a life which will rock their love.
Clare Benson is Laura's childhood friend. They've been together through
thick and thin, good and bad. When Clare asks Laura the biggest favour
and greatest honour of all - to be guardian to her teenage daughter,
Natasha - Laura discovers her personal and professional lives become
dramatically intertwined. But in true Valiant style, Laura rises to the
challenges ahead and, eventually, succeeds in achieving the happiness
and fulfilment she craves.
From the streets of Paris and London to the art galleries and art
auctions of New York, A Sudden Change of Heart takes the reader on an
unforgettable journey where secrets, survival, love and redemption
mesmerize the reader from the first page to the last. This is Barbara
Taylor Bradford's fifteenth novel and it is told with the emotion and
feeling readers have come to expect from one of the world's most beloved
authors. 'Queen of the genre.'
Sunday 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.
