A Woman of Substance

A compelling story of old loves, old secrets . . .

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?

A magnificent dynastic rags-to-riches saga, as impossible to put down as it is to forget, 'A Woman Of Substance' is truly a novel of our times.