Her Own Rules
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A forgotten past hides the key to the future.
Meredith Stratton, at forty-four the owner of six elegant international inns, is about to celebrate her daughterβs engagement. At this seemingly happy time in her life she begins to suffer from a strange illness that baffles everyone. Her doctor cannot find a physical cause for her debilitating symptoms, and, desperate for answers, she seeks the help of a psychiatrist. Through therapy Meredith peels back the layers of her life to discover the truth behind her most careful creation β herself. Determined to get well, Meredith traces her roots back to another country where she learns about childhood experiences that dramatically changed her life. What she discovers is not only the key to the past but to her future happiness and fulfilment as a woman.
Moving from the Connecticut countryside, the busy streets and suites of London, Paris and New York, to the pastoral beauty of a chΓ’teau in the Loire, Her Own Rules is an exciting and suspenseful novel about secrets, survival, redemption and love.
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Barbara Taylor Bradford was born and raised in England. Her first novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring bestseller and was followed by twenty-three others, including the bestselling Harte series. In 2006 The Ravenscar Dynasty began an epic new family series around Ravenscar and the house of Deravenel. Barbara's books have sold more than eighty-one million copies worldwide in more than ninety countries and forty languages. In October of 2007, Barbara was appointed an OBE by the Queen.
