A Woman of Substance

I was a mother with two young children when

I read this novel in the 1980s and was thoroughly swept up in the rags to riches story of Emma Harte, as well as the author’s obvious love of Yorkshire and its rugged moorland scenery, which was where I was living at the time. What I loved most about the book was the world Barbara Taylor Bradford created with its huge cast of characters and strong sense of family and it sowed a tiny seed within me that I might like to try and create my own world through putting pen to paper. A few years later I did just that and my first novel was published.