Here's a book review for you: Don't bother reading Emma's Secret by Barbara Taylor Bradford. The official Amazon.com book description says:
"The legendary Emma Harte, heroine of A Woman of Substance, returns in Emma's Secret, a novel that showcases the storytelling power of Barbara Taylor Bradford."
This novel does not "showcase" the storytelling power of this author. This book seems to be desperate attempt to revive the popularity of a great series, which should not have been a series at all, but ended with A Woman of Substance. Bradford was her best in that book and each subsequent one has diluted and repeated the story more and more.
The book is about a woman who is told by her dying Grandmother to go to London to find the key to her past. The Grandmother directs the Granddaughter to Emma Harte, who has been dead for decades. The Granddaughter goes to London and gets a job at Harte's and falls in love with one of the descendents and finds out a secret about her ancestry. Is it apparent to you what that secret is? Yeah...it is obvious from the first chapter of the book, too. But you have to plow through another 500 pages to find out what the secret is, and the startling conclusion that it really doesn't matter.
Just another reason why I shouldn't read books by authors when they keep using the same characters.
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