The Woman of Substance: The Secret Life That Inspired the Renowned Storyteller Barbara Taylor Bradford

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The definitive biography of Barbara Taylor Bradford author of twenty-one top-of-the-lists blockbuster bestsellers starting with A Woman of Substance For the first time ever take a fascinating look at the remarkable life of Barbara Taylor Bradford. Her first book A Woman of Substance is one of the bestselling novels of all time and has made her one of the most successful authors in the world. Yet her rise to fame and fortune was not an easy one. Barbara came from humble beginnings in Yorkshire the only daughter of a laborer and a nanny. From an early age her mother Freda had marked her daughter out for glory---at any cost. This drive ambition and desire to triumph helped Barbara take the Yorkshire Evening Post and Fleet Street by storm. But her biggest achievement was undeniably A Woman of Substance. The novels unforgettable heroine Emma Harte was a powerful success-fuelled woman whose rise from kitchen maid to international business woman was an inspiration to women the world over. Emmas life is a testament to Barbaras imagination but here for the first time Piers Dudgeon unearths amazing parallels in the lives of Barbaras fictional characters and her real-life family. More remarkable still is that Barbara herself was previously completely unaware of these deeply buried secrets. In this incredible story fact and fiction exist side by side and art unwittingly imitates life. This is the first time Barbara Taylor Bradford has collaborated on a memoir of her amazing life. Full of revelations its as absorbing a read as any one of her bestsellers.