Despite being a successful writer from an early age, it was when her first fictional novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979 that Barbara Taylor Bradford truly stormed into literary history.

Barbara describes the leading character of her novel, Emma Harte, as, 'a woman who was strong, independent, driven, ambitious, courageous - willing to go out and put herself on the line and do something. I created a women who wanted to conquer the world'.

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Best-selling author Barbara Taylor Bradford gives t5m a series of armchair interviews about starting out as a published writer, her very first novel and being Emma Harte.
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