A Woman of Substance - Softcover

Bradford, Barbara Taylor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031235326X ISBN 13: 9780312353261

Publisher: Griffin, 2006

Synopsis

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.

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Review:

'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

From the Back Cover:

In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairly 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.

Emma Harte is 'A Women of Substance'. But what is the price she has paid?

A magnificent dynastic saga, as impossible to switch off as it is to forget.

"A spellbinding family saga...a tour de force"
ANNABEL

About this edition

• Publisher: Griffin
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 031235326X
• ISBN 13: 9780312353261
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 906