A Woman of Substance

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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 saga, as impossible to put down as it to forget, A Woman of Substance is truly a classic novel of our times.