Barbara Taylor Bradford

Two-part, four-hour followup to "A Woman of Substance" with Deborah Kerr, now playing Emma Harte at age 80 in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula, as well as her respected advisor Henry Rossiter and Blackie O'Neill. (imdb)

A Woman of Substance charts the life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the 20th Century, to business woman and Grandmother in the 1980's. From a small shop over the next twenty years she expands her stores and invests in the growing textile industry. By the time of World War 2, Emma is the head of a major retail and manufacturing empire, but she has struggled all her life to find love. (imdb)

Starting over after a twenty-year marriage, she never expected to fall in love with another man. Is this a fling or the love of a lifetime?

A sad and lonely writer returns to her home town in England for the first time since she was about 6 or 7 years old,after being adopted and raised in America. While there she decides to look for her mother's grave,and finds out her memories are not exactly what she thought they were,her mother is alive. She then sets out to find her mother and some answers and finds both. She also falls in love, of course, but has a problem with long term commitments...

Mallory Jordan's husband and two daughters are killed by two men in a robbery. Mallory is in deep and poignant distress caused by the loss of her family.

An American woman breaks off her engagement to begin a new life with a journalist, but unfortunately her lover disappears while on a reporting assignment in Serbia.

TV journalist Nicky Wells' life is shattered when her English aristocrat fiancee Charles Devereaux suddenly disappears. She tries to console herself by concentrating on her work, but a romantic encounter with war photographer Cleeland Donovan forces her to revisit the circumstances of her former lover's mysterious double life.

Audra Kenton will fight relentlessly to fulfill one ambition, to give her child the chance for success she could never have. Then there is Christina, Audra's brilliantly gifted daughter, who dreams of becoming an artist. But determined to repay her mother's sacrifice, she will make a commitment that forever alters her fate, bringing her great fame -- and a special kind of heartache.

The Barbara Taylor Bradford trilogy that began with A Woman of Substance ends with this epic tale! Paula O' Neill feuds with her cousins as she fights to save her grandmother's business-and struggles to salvage her marriage.