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A Woman of Substance
Series: The Harte Family Saga
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Now a major new Channel 4 series starring Brenda Blethyn (Vera) and Jessica Reynolds (Outlander) One girl. One secret. One unstoppable ascent. In 1905, a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall. Emma Harte is sixteen, single and pregnant. By 1968, she is one of the richest...
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Now a major new Channel 4 series starring Brenda Blethyn (Vera) and Jessica Reynolds (Outlander) from OBE‑honoured, award‑winning author Barbara Taylor Bradford
Now a major Channel 4 drama series: the million-copy bestselling, epic family saga of ambition, courage, betrayal and revenge
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Now a major new Channel 4 series starring Brenda Blethyn (Vera) and Jessica Reynolds (Outlander)
One girl. One secret. One unstoppable ascent.
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?
‘Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the best at spinning yarns’ Guardian
‘An extravagant, absorbing novel of love, courage, ambition, war, death and passion’ New York Times
Series: The Harte Family Saga
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A Woman of Substance
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...PaperbackSold Out -
A Woman of Substance
Now a major new Channel 4 series starring Brenda Blethyn (Vera) and Jessica Reynolds (Outlander) One girl. One secret. One unstoppable ascent. 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...PaperbackSold Out
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780008822415
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 12 March 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: HarperCollins
Edition: TV tie-in edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 53.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 270g
Pages: 848
About the Author
Barbara Taylor Bradford was born in Leeds, and by the age of twenty was an editor and columnist on Fleet Street. Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring worldwide bestseller. Her novels have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide in more than ninety countries and forty languages, and ten mini-series and television movies have been made of her books. She lives in New York City with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford.
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