Wanda B. (WandaB) reviewed Unexpected Blessings (Also Published as Unexpected Bliss) on + 99 more book reviews
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Emma Harte, the redoubtable heroine of veteran novelist Bradford's 1976 bestseller, A Woman of Substance, has been dead for 30 years, but she's still a player in the continuing family saga. Her pronouncements and unwritten rules are well remembered by all the descendants in the dynasty and business empire she founded. This installment begins where Emma's Secret (2004) left off, with Evan Hughes, the young visitor from the U.S., obtaining a dream job in fashion at the renowned London department store, Harte's, and beginning a romance with Gideon Harte, heir apparent to the family newspaper enterprise. In the previous volume, Evan learned that her own father was the illegitimate child of another Harte scion (making Evan and Gideon cousins a few times removed), and now she wonders whether she should divulge this secret to her father, who is soon to arrive in London. A true crisis distracts her, however: the disappearance of three-year-old Adele, adored daughter of store manager Tessa, one of Emma's great-grandchildren. Linnet, Tessa's half-sister and sometimes business rival, comes to the rescue and Adele soon reappears, but tensions between the sisters persist. Meanwhile, Linnet's cousin India has fallen in love with a painter from a working-class background, and India must battle her family's disapproval. The exploits and adventures of Bradford's indomitable heroines continue to make for lusty escapist fiction in this robust fifth novel in the series
Debbie C. (grannyc) -
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The next generation of the Harte family. Sequel to Emma's Secret.
Sue E. (Susanaque) -
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The next sequel from the original "Women of Substance", Emma Harte. This book revolves around three of her great grand daughters. Tess is battling her husband for custody of their daughter. Linnet, the brilliant business women of the group is trying to prove she is the logical one to run the Harte Empire. And India is falling in love with a British artist and she is determined to marry him..no matter what. And there is Evan Hughs...Emma's American great grand daughter-trying to fit into the Harte family.The ambition, passion and volitile women of the next generation.
