Novelist says she returned to the story that made her name 40 years ago as she struggled to cope after her husband’s death
Barbara Taylor Bradford’s husband, Robert Bradford, always told her: “Keep writing if anything happens to me, it’s your solace as well as your career.” So when he died of a stroke this summer, it was natural for her to pick up her pen. But after 55 years of marriage, Bradford was surprised to find herself returning to the blockbuster novel that made her name in 1979: A Woman of Substance.
A prequel, Blackie and Emma, is due to be published next year, taking readers back before the start of her rags-to-riches bestseller with the story of Blackie O’Neill, the closest friend of Bradford’s most famous heroine, Emma Harte.
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