Voice of the Heart

Voice of the Heart
Barbara Taylor Bradford

From the internationally bestselling author of A Woman of SubstanceThe story of two brilliant women and the men to whom they ransomed their hearts.With her beauty, talent, and allure, Katherine Tempest has the world at her feet. Her rise from unknown actress to Hollywood legend is one marked by dazzling performances and a carefully concealed, yet undeniably ruthless, determination to succeed.But Katherine irrevocably changes the lives of her closest friends: two men who love her and the woman who trusts her implicitly. She never looks back until she needs the one thing they alone can give her – forgiveness.

BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD

Voice of the Heart

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This paperback edition 1994

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Previously published in paperback by Grafton 1984

Reprinted sixteen times

First published in Great Britain by Granada Publishing 1983

Copyright © Barbara Taylor Bradford 1983

Barbara Taylor Bradford asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

ISBN 0 586 05848 6

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Caledonian International Book Manufacturing Ltd, Glasgow

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Ebook Edition © OCTOBER 2010 ISBN: 9780007395583

Version: 2017-11-16

For my husband Robert Bradford with love

‘That voice of the heart, which, Lamartine says, “alone reaches the heart”’

MARCEL PROUST

Contents

Cover (#u16ed015a-8ca8-5415-9230-315e89d3eefb)

Title Page (#u4b939246-5ecb-59f3-9334-ece1f5e75f9b)

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Overture 1978 (#u5f2da334-2a34-5f40-b48e-28c9618c879d)

CHAPTER ONE (#uecc9726c-d650-5ccc-a259-ed22827fc6f8)

In the Wings 1979 (#u57dc26d9-76b0-585a-894f-3c671e094003)

CHAPTER TWO (#u4ff4fbfc-255b-5d55-ba15-4cf8a93800a4)

CHAPTER THREE (#u80ac3c28-7aaf-5cce-9e3f-9ed69226b13f)

CHAPTER FOUR (#u73d9aa9b-f110-5124-b6c6-2463aab130fc)

Act One Downstage Right 1956 (#u798cf9c7-fdc7-5ab6-91b0-1b70a1cf2ac7)

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CHAPTER SIX (#u4c8e5c6d-e51c-5628-afe8-439bd275d1aa)

CHAPTER SEVEN (#u7be57449-feba-599c-8a69-514327f29f14)

CHAPTER EIGHT (#ub698c2c9-756a-586c-8d68-cf89e6b747b6)

CHAPTER NINE (#u79a2494a-03a7-53ab-ad82-8432fc0ad217)

CHAPTER TEN (#u425fac3b-9f76-5837-bc26-7194acb6195a)

CHAPTER ELEVEN (#u3851f7db-3c09-5c4a-be3d-7c3a655a17d1)

CHAPTER TWELVE (#u4bb977e2-4cef-5d9d-9684-b53d009e7d50)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN (#u1dc934fe-ba58-5b4f-b063-609e1e6c70d6)

CHAPTER FOURTEEN (#u7edcd0c0-565b-5b3b-95fb-360b5401f48b)

CHAPTER FIFTEEN (#u65dfa6e7-aed4-5b0f-94cb-8e9d88b217f0)

CHAPTER SIXTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN (#litres_trial_promo)

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