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Power of a woman
by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Description:
No Matter How Much a Woman Has, There’s Always too Much to Lose Stephanie Jardine is at the apex of her career and life running the American branch of Jardine’s, the prestigious Crown Jewellers of London. A young widow, she has three grown sons and one very precious teenage daughter, Chloe. Then one day, an unexpected act of violence committed by a stranger on the other side of the world plunges Stevie into turmoil and despair. To save her injured daughter’s life and ensure her future, Stevie must go back to her own past and confront a relationship that has only brought her heartbreak. As she battles for her daughter, Stevie comes to understand how fragile life is and how it can be forever changed by others when least expected. A moving novel about family secrets, betrayal, and redemption, Power of a Woman is the story of an innocent victim of a stranger’s vengeance, who manages to triumph through her own inner power as a woman.
About The Author
Barbara Taylor Bradford is the author of 30 bestselling novels, including The Cavendon Women, Cavendon Hall, and The Ravenscar Dynasty. She was born in Leeds, England, and from an early age, she was a voracious reader: at age 12, she had already read all of Dickens and the Brontë sisters. By the age of twenty, she was an editor and columnist on Fleet Street. She published her first novel, A Woman of Substance, in 1979, and it has become an enduring bestseller.
Barbara Taylor Bradford’s books are published in over 90 countries in 40 languages, with sales figures in excess of 88 million. Ten of her novels have been adapted into television mini-series starring actors including Sir Anthony Hopkins, Liam Neeson, Deborah Kerr and Elizabeth Hurley. She has been inducted into the Writers Hall of Fame of America, and in June of 2007, Barbara was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) by Queen Elizabeth II for her contributions to Literature.
She lives in New York City with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford, to whom all her novels are dedicated.
Skryf Review
“Amazing Book”
Sejal
Outstanding story that kept me involved until the very end. Steve Jardine is a woman happy in her life. Some parts of the story seem unreal in that she seems to be the perfect mother making one wish for the insights into the family that she possessed. However she does retain a strong hand in the family and its business. The ending is a touch to the heart and warming to ones soul. Barbara does such a masterful job in any situation she chooses to put her characters.
Ninad
We were introduced to the characters in the book…Stevie, the “powerful” woman who runs the jewelry store Jardine’s, her three sons, father-in-law Bruce, mother Blair, and step-father, Derek, a well known British actor. At times, their wealth was a bit over dramatic. Spending over ten million dollars for a diamond? No problem! Mansions and flats here and there across the ocean? Of course! A senseless killing, and Stevie’s illegitimate daughter Chloe finding out who her father is was the “dramatic” conclusion to the book.
Badaal
Enjoyed this, agree the ‘thing’ happened too far near the end, and I can’t fathom why the author would have put the part in about what the father-in-law did to her, it served no purpose, and the son just dribbled away with no further issue – wonder if perhaps a series could be in the future for this one, as she hands the business over to her children, perhaps some battles there, I’d read a follow-up if there was one.
Krushali
Stephanie “Stevie” Jardine runs a very high-end jewelry shops in London and the USA. She has 3 sons and a daughter. Her family, late husbands ide, owns the company and Stevie has made her mark with purchasing valuable gems and selling them.Follow her story from when she married into the Jardine family, births, deaths and lost loved ones.Another enjoyable story by Ms. Bradford.
Harishruta
This is worst book I have ever read and I readalot…There is absolutly no substance at all tothis so called book..Starts out in the middle ofthe main charaters life and alludes to her pastin the many boring chapters.. She has 4 childrenthat are mentioned but does not delve into theirlives deeply at all..People just keep popping upand you didn’t know where they came from or whatthey had to do with anything… Could have addedabout 200-300 more pages and detailed the story..Starting with how the main charater met herhusband, their marriage, how he died, etc.. Thenhow she learned to live on her own… How abouta few chapter about all the kids and their lives..The first born son has a wife that was married before and the first you hear about it is when he comes in near the end of the book and goes crazy and shoots the wife and her sister-in-law…Then one the twin boys is having a affair with a married woman that he knew a ways back when teenagers and she just pops in and now getting divorced to be with the son…The daugher is illegitmate, the mother tells no one who father is, says he died… Daughter gets shot, goes in coma…Mother feels bad, goes to see the father that supposedly died…He shows up the last 2-3 chapters and all is forgiven..That his daughter was kept from him for 18 yrs…Then to top it all off the story just ends…. Could have used an epiloque…Seems like the author was on a deadline and had to get the story out in a hurry so just fluffed a story with no in depth detail and time to get readers to love the charaters… If I had time I would sit down and re-write this the way it should have been written.