A Woman Of Substance [40th Anniversary Edition]

Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9780007321421
  • : HarperCollins Publishers
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  • : October 2009
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 51mm
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  • : July 2017
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  • : Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • : Emma Harte Ser.
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  • : English
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Description

The unputdownable multi-million copy bestseller charting the rags to riches story of Emma Harte 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.

Reviews

'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 'As romantic and thrilling as the rest' Independent on Sunday 'Another great yarn from the ultimate storyteller' The Sun 'An extravagant, absorbing novel of love, courage, ambition, war, death and passion.' New York Times

Author description

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 worldwide bestseller. Her novels have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide in more than ninety countries and forty languages, and ten mini-series and television movies have been made of her books. She lives in New York City with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford.