A Woman of Substance

Reissue of the perennially popular dynastic rags to riches saga to coincide with the publication of its sequel, Emma's Secret . 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 best seller is truly a novel of our times.

About the Author

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 best selling Harte series .