Love in Another Town / Everything to Gain / A Secret Affair

by Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor Bradford provides three engrossing, unabridged examples of the skills that have made her the mega-selling queen of the romantic page-turner.Love in Another Town is the stirring account of a woman's attempt to forge a new life after a failed marriage and estrangement from her grown children. When Maggie Sorrell falls in love with the much younger Jake Cantrell, she begins an emotional renewal that must overcome the disapproval of others as well as the shackles of the past.Everything to Gain tells the heart-wrenching story of a woman whose perfect life, in one tragic and violent moment, is turned into one of devastating loss and despair. Following the senseless murder of her husband and children, Mallory Keswick's life seems to have no purpose, and she considers ending it. The kindness of her late husband's mother starts Mallory on the road to discovering talent she never knew she had. The story of her recovery and salvation is told with the sensitivity and drama that the millions of Bradford fans have come to expect.A Secret Affair adds the romantic backgrounds of the Venetian canals, the exclusive beaches of the Hamptons, and the danger-fraught cityscape of wartime Sarajevo to the story of the illicit love affair between a young artist and a famous TV newsman. The desperate measures they must take in order to be together and the gripping events that envelop their lives result in an exceptionally moving story.

720 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2000

About the author

Barbara Taylor Bradford was a British-American novelist whose dramatic family sagas and stories of ambitious women made her one of the most commercially successful authors of modern popular fiction. Raised in Leeds, she developed an early love of reading and decided as a child that she would become a writer. After leaving school at sixteen, she began her career in journalism, first working in the typing pool of the Yorkshire Evening Post before becoming a reporter. In her early twenties she moved to London, where she built a successful career as a fashion editor for Woman's Own magazine and later wrote widely syndicated newspaper columns. Although she experimented with suspense fiction, her breakthrough came with the novel A Woman of Substance in 1979, a sweeping story of a determined young woman rising from poverty to great success. The novel became an international bestseller and launched a long series of novels featuring strong female protagonists who achieve success through perseverance, ambition, and business skill. Over the following decades she wrote forty novels translated into dozens of languages and sold in tens of millions of copies worldwide. Several of her books were adapted for television miniseries and films, further expanding her readership. Her work earned numerous honors, including appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of her contribution to literature.

Reviews

[Carrington Stuart · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed all three novels, especially Love in Another Town.