This book had been piquing my interest at the local library for some time as it is an early Barbara Taylor Bradford that I had not read. I picked it up this past week and it proved timely as it has been just the perfect thing for seeing me through a vicious head-cold. It is easy reading and involved enough to keep my interest, but it is not one of Bradford's best. I would place it somewhere between her Emma Harte novels and the newer series.