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In Everything to Gain, Barbara Taylor Bradford celebrates family, friendship, and the triumph of the human spirit. It is the most compelling, touching and satisfying book yet to come from one of the world’s best loved novelists, the author of such classics as A Woman of Substance, Act of Will and The Women in his Life. At the centre of Everything to Gain is wife and mother Mallory Keswick, who must rebuild her life when violent tragedy destroys her family. Shattered by grief, Mal takes refuge in Indian Meadows, the old colonial weekend home beloved by her and her family. But even there despair almost destroys her, and in desperation she flees to a village on the Yorkshire moors where her husband grew up: and it is in Yorkshire that Mallory has her epiphany. Beginning anew, she starts a small business at Indian Meadows – a café and shop selling gourmet food and kitchenware, which she turns into a highly successful venture. But at the centre of her life there remains an aching void, a grief that no one can assuage. Until she meets Richard Markson, a New York journalist. It is he who shows her that she has everything to gain – if she has the courage to take it. As always Barbara Taylor Bradford creates a many-faceted and indomitable character in Mallory Keswick. But here, for the first time, she writes in the first person, giving readers a sense of immediacy and intimacy. Totally absorbing and heartrendingly real, Everything to Gain lays bare Mallory’s life to expose feelings startlingly familiar because they are our own. Hardcover, 381 pages. In very good preloved condition.