Bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford was catapulted into fame as a result of her 1979 novel A Woman of Substance, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and was made into a 10-part mini-series.
She began her long writing career as a journalist on the Yorkshire Evening Post, later graduating to Fleet Street. Now 84, she lives in New York with her husband, Bob.
Bulgari Rose Goldea
I was on a cruise this summer and went in to the gift shop looking for small presents to take back to friends. The first thing I saw was a gorgeous perfume bottle encased in gold with a huge pink stopper. Attracted by the packaging, I asked to smell it and it was one of my favourite scents of roses (Bulgari Rose Goldea), so I bought it for myself!
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Hermès pink-silk floral shawl
I’m lucky that my husband, Bob, loves Hermès scarves and he recently bought me this gorgeous pink-silk floral shawl. It was a surprise and it looks wonderful with my pink Chanel coat.
Jean Schlumberger gold-and-enamel bracelets
I’ve always loved Jean Schlumberger gold-and-enamel bracelets. When Bob gave me a blue one for my birthday a couple of years ago, I later explained that Jackie Kennedy always wore two together and made that ‘the style’.
My generous husband went out the following day and bought me the second bracelet, which is a golden-yellow enamel. I felt like a very lucky girl!
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'I have lost a treasure, such a sister, such a friend as never can have been surpassed': Inside Jane Austen's Winchester home, the house where she penned her final words and drew her final breathJane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died.
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An utterly charming island home in Scotland with gardens so beautiful they made the cover of Country LifeAn Cala on the Isle of Seil has a fascinating history that is only enhanced by its amazing setting.
