Thirty Years Later “Substance” Endures Classic Novel Still Empowers Women (NAPSA)}—Many extraordinary women including the late Princess Diana, former first lady Laura Bush and legendary British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher have achieved their dreams with little help from empowering female role models—bothreal andfictional. pe | The women above, and countless others, have pointed to the , work of novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford 2) as a source of inspi- 3) ration for success in their own lives. Mrs. Bradford Bradford’s classic novel “A Woman of Substance”is currently celebrating a rerelease on its 30th anniversary and remains one of the top-10 best-selling novels in history. Many readers see them- selves in the rags-to-riches tale of Emma Harte, a maidservant who goes on to build a department store empire. “It’s about one woman who through her talent, ambition, discipline and stamina makes something of herself,” says Bradford. “She overcomes a lack of educa- tion, great adversity and in the end triumphs as a humanbeing.” Over the years, thousands of women have told the author how the book changed their lives, how it inspired them to juggle success- ful careers with a family life. Margaret Thatcher once told Bradford that she tried to moti- vate her own daughter by saying, “Carol, you’ve got to do what Barbara’s done. You’ve got to write a novel that will change the world.” The paperback, which has sold 32 million copies worldwide, is now being reissued, and a new chapter in the Harte family saga, “Breaking the Rules,” featuring a contemporary heroine and some familiar faces, is to be published in 2009. It figures to be Bradford’s 25th consecutive bestseller! eed WOMAN SUBSTAN@E NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR } BARBRA TAYLOR‘ @ BRADFORD THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Women often find themselves inspired to changetheir lives by reading about characters they can identify with. Here’s some empowering advice from “A Woman of Substance” that holds true even three decades later: 1. Don’t let anyone discourage you. Just like Emma Harte, you can overcome those who stand in your way on the road to success. 2. Reinvention. Emma Harte evolved from a maidservant to a seamstress, a shopkeeper and eventually a department store mogul. She always found ways to changewith the times. 3. Endurance. When Emma Harte was asked to explain the secret of her success, her reply was “to endure.” Learn to weather the inevitable personal and pro- fessional hardships in life and you too can become a “woman of substance.” Learn More For more information, visit BarbaraTaylorBradford.com.
