ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE

Originally published in 1979, this eight-part epic by Barbara Taylor Bradford was a major success for Channel 4 when they first adapted it in 1985. The story of a Yorkshire housemaid's journey from poverty to becoming the leader of a retail empire—and the wealthiest woman in the world—remains as relevant today as ever. Emma Harte's life is filled with love, ambition, betrayal, and loss. We first encounter her as an older woman in a limousine traveling through New York City, j