Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780006514411
Edition: New Ed
ISBN: 0006514413
Label: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: February 02, 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Studio: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

---

Related Items:

• Unexpected Blessings
• Just Rewards
• To Be the Best (Emma Harte Series)
• Hold the Dream
• A Woman of Substance
• see more

Alternate Versions: Click to Display

Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display

---

Rating: - A boring waste of time
Having loved A Woman of Substance and the following books in the saga, I eagerly picked up Emma's Secret. It began quite well, though the endless descriptions of food and what the characters were wearing, as opposed to any action/drama, began to bore after a while. Being a food lover I enjoyed the food descriptions at first - but when you realise they are written in place of a plot it begins to grate. Whilst reading it I thought it was EXACTLY like a bad American mini-series drama - real plot ... Read More

---

Rating: - Please keep it secret...
After seeing the other reviews, I embarked on this book with a certain amount of trepidation, having read the previous three in the saga some years ago, and sadly I felt it lived right down to my expectations. It felt over-written, under-edited, and thereby could have been fitted on to half the amount of pages. Excess stressing of the beauty of the characters (well, I know we expect them to all be lovely, but is it necessary to have everyone they meet mentally admiring their perfections?) combined ... Read More

---

Rating: - Emma's Secret
I absoltuely loved this book. I have enjoyed A Woman of Substance and To Hold a Dream, and this was no exception. I totally recommend it and I think everyone should buy it. I have just bought the new sequel - Unexpected Blessings and I cannot wait!!

---

Rating: - No other word for it. Terrible.
I read A Woman Of Substance when I was 14 years old and loved every page of it. True, it is the only Barbara Taylor Bradford book I ever enjoyed as - even by the publication of Hold the Dream - she had sadly turned from the realistic depictions of well-rounded characters in early twentieth century Yorkshire to 1980's American drama-inspired fantasy tales of exceptionally wealthy, perfect but two -dimensional people.
However - Emma's Secret promised more. A return to the middle years of Emma Harte. ... Read More

---

Rating: - Emma's Secret
Even though it is not A Woman of Substance, Hold the Dream, or To Be The Best, I do not agree with some of the prevous reviews of Emma's Secret.
To compare the 'modern characters to soap opera characters' is not fair. Actually some characteristics are rather hard to swollow because of the reality of it, particularly the relationship between Tessa and Mark Longden. Ms Taylor Bradford certainly had a lot of knowledge to show in this and other situations.
I particularly do not agree with the middle ... Read More

---