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A Woman of Substance (The Harte Family Saga, Book 1)

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

Romance

Critic Reviews

Praise for Barbara Taylor Bradford:

‘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

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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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