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Barbara Taylor Bradford once again celebrates family and relationships in her latest novel, Angel. This is the most ambitious, compelling and satisfying book yet to come from one of the world’s best-loved novelists, the author of international bestsellers from A Woman of Substance to The Women in his Life and Remember.
This contemporary, compassionate drama probes the lives of four electrifying characters. Orphans when they met in their teens in the late seventies, they vowed to be a family, always there for each other- Having entered adulthood with nothing, most now belong to the dazzling world of international show business. But they have all broken their promises, each in his or her own way. . .
As they reunite at a wrap party in London, it is Rosalind Madigan who is their bond. An Academy-award-winning costume designer, Rosie is blessed with an innate goodness. She is the ‘angel’ of the title and the glue that holds the ‘family’ together. Yet despite her glittering success in European and American theatre and film, Rosie is troubled by personal commitments which leave her estranged from the friends who love her. Gavin Ambrose is one of Hollywood’s hottest megastars: a talented actor and producer extraordinaire, a living legend, he is a man who still has not found love in his personal life. Nell Jeffrey, head of an international public relations firm, is a glamorous woman with a charm irresistible to both men and women. Rosie’s best friend, she is extremely shrewd and much more astute about people than Rosie – and is secretly in love with Rosie’s brother Kevin. A truly charismatic man, Kevin Madigan is an undercover cop in the New York Crime Intelligence Division, specializing in organized crime.
Into their midst come two interlopers, a French aristocrat named Guy De Montfleurie and Johnny Fortune, the bel canto balladeer of the nineties, who have a devastating effect on ‘the family’, but in the end bring them to their own self-realization.
Sweeping from the streets of London and New York and the studios of Hollywood to the boulevards of Paris and a chateau in the Loire Valley, Angel takes us on a journey of lost innocence. Told with the power that only Barbara Taylor Bradford can bring to the page, this stunning novel is not only about a family of friends, but also the personal story of individuals who, sensing their own mortality, take the opportunity to re-evaluate their lives and re-establish their bond.
Exciting convincing, engrossing, it will captivate you from the first page.
Hardcover, 398 pages. In good to very good pre-loved condition.
