A Woman of Substance: Emma Harte, Book 1
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| Rating | : | 4.53 (973 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B072P2D6WQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 477 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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The gripping multimillion-copy best seller charting the rags to riches story of Emma Harte. But what is the price she has paid? A Woman of Substance is as impossible to pause as it is to forget. 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. In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is 16, single and pregnant. This multimillion-copy best seller is truly a novel of our times.
Kylie Paris said AN ABSOLUTELY THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE BOOK. I won't bore you with another description of the book since you can read that in the actual book desctiption itself. I'll just tell you how I experienced it. I read this book one summer when it was first published many years ago and frankly it took quite some time to really get involved due to the many characters and decades. But I persevered and was greatly rewarded. It was one of those books that you can fall into and enjoy for a . Big, Sprawling, Ambitious Novel -- Still Brilliant for All of its Vintage Richard A. Lawhern I read A Woman of Substance in its recent Kindle anniversary edition and was immediately intrigued after only a few pages. Barbara Taylor Bradford succeeded in many ways with her first novel, some 35-plus years ago. Two generations of aspiring wanna-be authors have since imitated her style and themes in romance novels. But the original still stands out.It's not a perfect book for 2014, of course. Some readers will find it over-long . Great book and great movie Sandy About Emma and the Fairley's. Emma lived with her 2 brothers, her dad and her mother that was extremely sick. They barely got by, she was a maid at the Fairley's where she fell in love with Edwin Fairley. When he discovered she was pregnant with his child he tried to persuade her to terminate the child and that he could not may her. A statement that would haunt him until the day he died. Emma has determination to succeed and become