Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford, who wrote the acclaimed novel A Woman of Substance, has died, aged 91. The British-American novelist died peacefully at her home on Sunday, November 24, following a short illness.
The A Woman of Substance author died peacefully at her home on Sunday following a short illness, 'and was surrounded by loved ones to the very end', a spokeswoman said.
When they moved to New York, she could easily have settled into being a high society wife, but after failed attempts at writing a suspense novel, she hit the big time when A Woman Of Substance was published in 1979, making her an overnight success at the age of 38. At the age of 20 she moved to London and worked in Fleet Street for Woman's Own and the London Evening News.
'We were put to the test fairly early on,' she explained. 'Bob and I had just assumed we’d have children and we were so excited when I became pregnant two years after our wedding. Everything was perfect, so when I miscarried it was absolutely devastating. 'Now, we agree it would be lovely to have grandchildren, but I don’t know how easy it really is for women to have it all: a job, a family, a lovely home and a contented husband.'Her husband Bob - whose prior film credits included El Cid, Fifty-Five Days in Peking and John Paul Jones - produced nine of his wife’s books as mini-series and movies.
'We saw each other whenever she and her beloved Bob were in London. I did Hold The Dream for them as another mini-series.
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