Product Description

Beginning in the West Riding of Yorkshire, with a small family jewellery shop, this novel tells of one woman's struggle to keep her family and her business together, in the face of all odds.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #356387 in Books
• Published on: 1998-04-20
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Review
'Few novelists are as consummate as Barbara Taylor Bradford at keeping the reader turning the page. She is one of the world's best at spinning yarns.' Guardian 'The storyteller of substance.' The Times 'Barbara Taylor Bradford is a wonderful storyteller who can convey the power of love. The warmth and compassion of her tale brought tears to my jaded old eyes.' Sunday Express

Received too late for a full review, Bradford's newest romantic suspense yarn (Her Own Rules, 1996, etc. etc.) begins during one Thanksgiving in Connecticut and ends, some months later, in the Grill Room of the Dorchester Hotel in London. Center-stage, betweentimes, is the title's woman of power: the late-40ish, super-rich (thanks to her British in-laws' silversmith business) Stevie Jardine - married at 16, widowed at 23, and now with three grown children, one of whom may be a good deal more devious than anyone (most especially his mother) ever knew. By the close, though, Stevie will have gone from a "sense of foreboding" to finding (no surprise) love and forgiveness all around. For Bradford's devoted fans, which by now number in the millions. (Kirkus Reviews)

Customer Reviews

Power of a Woman
This is the first book I've read by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Since she's a bestselling author, i suppose she must have written some books that are better than thise one, because there's no chance that a publisher would ever have published this book if it was written by an unknown author.

If you read on the back of the book, it's supposedly about a woman whose life is "turned into turmoil and despair" after "an unexpected act of violence" and that she "must go back to her own past and confront a relationship that has only brought her heartbreak". This act of violence takes place about two thirds into the book. Before that, there's just a long, tedious buildup, where absolutely nothing happens. The actual story of the book is the last 100 pages or so, and if you haven't already given up on the book by then, even they are completely uninteresting.

The book is one of the most tedious books I've ever read and it should never have been published. Don't waste your time and money on it and don't encourage the author and publisher by wasting your money on it.