Voice of the Heart

When her first novel, A Woman of Substance, was published in 1979, Barbara Taylor Bradford scored an international hit. In one stroke, she established herself as a storyteller of worldwide stature and popularity. Her tale of a woman's rise from poverty to power and wealth struck a sympathetic chord in the hearts of readers everywhere. Now, in Voice of the Heart, she has created a new novel of substance - and two new heroines destined to conquer an even wider audience. Voice of the Heart is the story of two strong, beautiful, and successful women, who meet in their early twenties and whose destinies are forever after irrevocably entwined. Spanning twenty-years, from 1956 to 1979, it is a sweeping, dramatic, and emotionally moving novel of love and friendship, betrayal and ambition. Set in the glittering arenas of show business, politics, and big business, it plays in the posthouses and country houses of the rich, the privileged, the powerful and talented. The action takes the reader to London and a historic castle in Yorkshire, on to the Bavarian Alps and the French Riviera, and back to New York for the stunning and moving conclusion. Voice of the Heart is a long and richly satisfying story, acted out by two unique and brilliant women and by the charismatic men whom they loved and lost, and to whom they ransomed their hearts. Voice of the Heart is a spellbinding novel that will touch the reader on many emotional levels, striking chords in their own lives. It is vivid in detail, in description and in characterization, told in the author's inimitable style.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction, Romance. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.