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 of Australia. But what is the price she has paid?


A Woman of Substance is as impossible to put down as it is to forget. This multi-million copy bestseller is truly a novel of our times.



'Queen of the genre' Sunday Times