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A Woman of Substance

By: Barbara Taylor Bradford
Narrated by: Diana Quick
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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.

'Queen of the genre' Sunday Times

©2012 Barbara Taylor Bradford (P)2012 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Romance

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"An extravagant, absorbing novel of love, courage, ambition, war, death and passion." ( New York Times)
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I read this book when I was in my teens and remember enjoying it immensely. Now I’m afraid I found it too absurd and unrealistic. The narrator did her best to change her voice I guess but I also think that could have been improved upon.

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