Barbara Taylor Bradford

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Barbara Taylor Bradford (1933–2024) was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and was a reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post at sixteen. By the age of twenty she had graduated to London’s Fleet Street as both an editor and columnist. In 1979, she wrote her first novel, A Woman of Substance, and that enduring bestseller was followed by twelve others: Voice of the Heart, Hold the Dream, Act of Will, To Be the Best, The Women in His Life, Remember, Angel, Everything to Gain, Dangerous to Know, Love in Another Town, Her Own Rules, and A Secret Affair. Of these titles, ten have been made into television miniseries or are currently in production. Her novels have sold more than fifty-six million copies worldwide in more than eighty-eight countries and thirty-eight languages.