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    Audiobook16 hours

    Breaking The Rules

    Written by Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Narrated by Zoe-Anne Phillips

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    About this audiobook

    Forty years ago, the world was introduced to Emma Harte. Now meet M, a new woman of substance guaranteed to win our hearts all over again. A new era has begun…

    When those you love are threatened, there’s nothing you won’t do to protect them… you’ll even resort to Breaking the Rules.

    Following a terrifying encounter in the quiet English countryside, a dark beauty flees to New York in search of a new life. Adopting the initial M as her name, she embarks on a journey that will lead her to the catwalks of Paris where she becomes the muse and star model to France’s iconic top designer Jean-Louis Tremont.

    When M meets charming and handsome actor Larry Vaughan they fall instantly in love with one another. Soon they become the most desired couple on the international scene, appearing on the front cover of every celebrity magazine, adored by millions. With a successful career and a perfect marriage, M believes she has truly put the demons of her past to bed.

    But M’s fortunes are about to take another dramatic turn when a dark figure from her past, someone who she thought she’d never see again, is back and determined to shatter M’s world forever.

    From the chic fashion capitals of London and Paris, to the exotic locations of Istanbul and Hong Kong, Breaking the Rules is an enthralling story of love and redemption, secrets and survival from the bestselling author of A Woman of Substance.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 3, 2009
    ISBN9780007316168
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    Breaking The Rules
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    Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Barbara Taylor Bradford was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and was a reporter for the Yorkshire Evening Post at sixteen. By the age of twenty she had graduated to London's Fleet Street as both an editor and columnist. In 1979, she wrote her first novel, A Woman of Substance, and that enduring bestseller was followed by 12 others: Voice of the Heart, Hold the Dream, Act of Will, To Be the Best, The Women in His Life, Remember, Angel, Everything to Gain, Dangerous to Know, Love in Another Town, Her Own Rules and A Secret Affair. Of these titles, ten have been made into television miniseries or are currently in production. Her novels have sold more than 56 million copies worldwide in more than 88 countries and 38 languages. Barbara Taylor Bradford lives in New York City and Connecticut with her husband, film producer Robert Bradford.

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    • 3/5
      I found this book okay. I did not like it as much as some of her other books. My favorite has always been A Woman of Substance. I liked the characters and the story line in this book. However, towards the middle, it got too long. I just wanted to get to the end and get the resolution of the mystery surrounding the main character.
    • 2/5
      Definitely by far the worst book I've read by her... I've only read a few, but I liked the others or I wouldn't have bothered with this book.
    • 2/5
      I was really disappointed with this book. I feel like BTB should stay to books placed in the past, but when she tries to catch up with current times the story just looses strength. First of all, the whole M nickname…it was obvious who she was from the beginning, so I don’t see the point to keep her identity “hidden” for 3 quarters of the book. All the relationships happen in 2 pages! They all fall in love in a paragraph, sleep together immediately and suddenly they “know” they were meant to be. I am sorry, but I do not find this romantic, but just rushed. As for Birdie…why kill her husband? I mean, they were great together in past books, so what’s the point? Introduce a new rushed relationship with a nobody that just appeared for this book?. As long as JA story goes…I was happy to see him back, because I thought now the book is going to lift up again…no, once again, I was disappointed, everything is told in a paragraph, no development to what happened to Angharad, nor the daughter, the attacks are random and seemed unplanned, but then there is a sentence that says: it went according to plan…euh…what plan?. As always the description of the rooms and the clothes is really nice, and you can see BTB’s background as an interior designer, but the Harte women are supposed to be strong, well developed characters, as well as their partners. Nothing like this was true for the characters presented in this book…I would recommend stopping at Unexpected blessings for this saga if you don’t want to be utterly let down.
    • 2/5
      I didn't love this book. It was okay but... M (protagonist) is too perfect, too confident, too smart - invincible. The fact that she was disturbed at all by the rape is hard to believe because everywhere else in the story, she's a superwoman. She was difficult to love because she had no vulnerability.The story jumps around, swapping points of view often between at least ten characters. The author goes off on tangents, sharing details about a very secondary character when we've had no other information on them up to that point and nothing after. The scene itself becomes unimportant to the reader because we have not grown to love that character, we don't care about them. In the third section, I felt the story really dragged. It was a whole lot of build-up to a disappointing climax.