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 Emma's Secret - Barbara Taylor Bradford
Newest Review: ... whom seem to have bred prolifically and had no compunction about giving their offspring similar names. It's a big book – 666 ... more  ... pages – but none of the characters are well-developed and even towards the end I was still flicking back to the family tree to try and work out who was who. A good number of people are necessary if the mystery of the relationship is to be sustained, but the characters are so two-dimensional that when the 'culprit' was eventually revealed I had to look back at the family tree yet again.
The Hartes, the O'Neills and the Kallinskis are all rich and it's all apparently been achieved through hard work on their part. The bo...more |
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Emma's Secret - Barbara Taylor Bradford: Ee by Gum - a cast of thousands! (1026 words)
by SueMagee - written on 30/11/04 (Very useful, 97 readings)
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Emsie and Emily are talking about Evan who is female rather than male as you might think. They're wondering if Evan is a descendant of Emma, although it is obviously not through Edwina who is Edwin's illegitimate daughter. There is that strange resemblance to Elizabeth though and, to confuse matters even further, a nanny called Elvira. I'd had a busy day and the library trip had to be restricted to dropping six books on the counter and picking up the first six from the returned books trolley. One of these was "Emma's Secret" by Barbara Taylor Bradford. It's number four in her Emma Harte series, of which "A Woman of Substance" is the first, ...
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