Barbara Taylor Bradford, famed for novel and TV series A Woman of Substance, dies aged 91

Barbara Taylor Bradford has died astatine the property of 91 aft a abbreviated illness.

The 91-year-old writer died bid peacefully astatine her location connected Sunday, November 24 pursuing a abbreviated illness.

A spokesperson confirmed she’was surrounded by loved ones to the precise end.

The writer wrote 40 novels successful her career, with her publication A Woman of Substance turned into a fashionable TV bid successful the 1980s.

The bid ran for 1 play successful 1985 arsenic a British-American three-part television drama serial, starring Liam Neeson, Deborah Kerr, Jenny Seagrove and Barry Bostwick.

The novelist was joined to American movie shaper Robert Bradford. The mates archetypal met successful 1961 and joined connected Christmas Eve successful 1963.

Robert died successful 2019 aft a large stroke, but the mates was happily joined for 55 years earlier his death

Taylor Bradford was calved successful Leeds successful May 193 and was the lone kid of Winston and Freda Taylor.

She began her vocation arsenic a typist for theYorkshire Evening Post, earlier moving her mode up to becoming a newsman and the paper’s archetypal pistillate editor.

At the property of 20, she moved to London and worked for Woman’s Own and the London Evening News.

The novelist became an overnight occurrence successful 1979 erstwhile A Woman Of Substance was published.

Taylor Bradford’s astir caller novel, The Wonder of It All, was published conscionable past year.

The writer was made an OBE successful 2007 for services to literature.

Charlie Redmayne, main enforcement of steadfast HarperCollins, said: ‘Barbara Taylor Bradford was a genuinely exceptional writer whose archetypal book, the planetary bestseller A Woman Of Substance, changed the lives of truthful galore who work it – and inactive does to this day.

‘She was a earthy storyteller, profoundly arrogant of her Yorkshire roots – she would regale america of her clip moving connected the Yorkshire Evening Post with chap newsman Keith Waterhouse and trainee lensman Peter O’Toole, the dawn of the Soho cafe society, and the galore blessed years shared with the emotion of her life, her husband, Bob.

‘For 45 years, she was a immense portion of our institution and a great, large person – we volition miss her truthful overmuch – but determination is immoderate solace successful the cognition that she is now, erstwhile again, alongside her beloved Bob. A beingness well-lived…’

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