Being Elizabeth, Barbara Taylor Bradford
Being Elizabeth, Barbara Taylor Bradford
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Being Elizabeth
A Novel

Author: Barbara Taylor Bradford

Narrator: Katherine Kellgren

Unabridged: 13 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/19/2008

Synopsis

The number-one bestselling author delivers her most provocative, sizzling novel yet—a story of money, power, love, and betrayal that only Barbara Taylor Bradford could write.

At age twenty-five, Elizabeth Deravenel finds herself in a position few women her age could image: the head of Deravenels, a business empire that spans the globe. It's a company whose reach is wide and whose secrets are deep. Deravenels has roots that go far back in her family's history, and she knows the price that many had to pay to see it reach the success it is today. And Elizabeth is the youngest executive in the company she now leads. Surrounded by rumors and disloyalty, she knows that there are many people who would give anything to take down the company—and her with it. With her enemies circling, she finds herself at a crossroad of choices involving her mind, her heart, and her destiny. As scandal surrounds the one man she's ever loved, Elizabeth discovers how the next move she makes could have deadly and final consequences. Being Elizabeth is Barbara Taylor Bradford at her storytelling best.

"Rife with dastardly internecine struggles, smoldering illicit passion, and cowardly insidious betrayals…packs as much intrigue as any Shakespearean royal drama."

---Booklist on The Heir

About Barbara Taylor Bradford

Barbara Taylor Bradford, OBE, is one of the world's best loved storytellers. Her 1979 debut novel, A Woman of Substance, ranks as one of the top-ten bestselling books of all-time, with more than 30 million copies in print. All her novels to date have been major worldwide bestsellers.Barbara was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, the only child of Freda and Winston Taylor. She grew up in the Leeds suburb of Armley and left school at 15 for the typing pool at the Yorkshire Evening Post. At 16 she was a reporter, and at 18 she became the paper’s first woman’s page editor. By the time she was 20, she had moved to London where she became a fashion editor and columnist on Fleet Street. Barbara started writing fiction when she was just seven, and sold her first short story to a magazine for seven shillings and sixpence when she was ten years old.Barbara’s books have sold more than 91 million copies worldwide in more than 90 countries and 40 languages. Ten of her books were made into Emmy-nominated miniseries and television movies by her late husband, the film producer Robert Bradford.In 2007, Barbara was awarded an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II in the Queen's Birthday Honours list for her contributions to literature. A passionate supporter of literacy, she is an ambassador for the National Literacy Trust; in 2019 she was made an ambassador for Women in Journalism and in the same year she was presented with The Leeds Award, which recognised her loyalty to, and depiction of, her Yorkshire roots. Her original manuscripts are archived at the Brotherton Library at Leeds University, alongside the works of the Brontë sisters. She lives in New York City.Her official website is: www.barbarataylorbradford.com

About Katherine Kellgren

Katherine Kellgren has recorded over 200 audiobooks and won four Audie Awards, three ALA Odyssey Honors, and eight AudioFile Earphones Awards. In 2011, Kellgren was named the  Best Voice in Young Adult & Fantasy, and she won the Audie award for Best Female Narrator in both 2013 and 2014.  Kellgren has also appeared onstage in London, New York and Frankfurt. She has recorded numerous plays and dramatizations of novels for the radio, including winners of the Peabody Award. She is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In naming Kellgren a “Golden Voice,” AudioFile magazine noted that she is a "marvel with accents...she is definitely a narrator to keep an ear out for." She lives in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Razvan on April 23, 2023

If hairdressers would read (which I do not really believe...) this soap should be among their favourites, but only if it had at least two hundred pages less. Too many characters, too many adjacent plots, too much advertising, which is exhausting, the good ones are too good, the bad ones are too stup......more

Goodreads review by Carol on June 29, 2011

What fun! Shakespeare's queen, Elizabeth, reimagined as the dashing, headstrong CEO of a respected English corporation. All of her advisors and her loves in modern business attire, jetting here and there and doing the young lady's bidding while she broods over her vast powers and responsibilities, t......more

Goodreads review by Laurel-Rain on October 17, 2008

When twenty-five year old Elizabeth Deravenel Turner inherits the family business, it is the life for which she was groomed. Albeit one that has not come easily – her younger brother and older half-sister Mary had the honor first. They had to die before she could finally inherit. We then see Elizabet......more

Goodreads review by May on December 27, 2008

I am a huge fan of Elizabeth I and the entire period that she lived in. So when I read the summary of this book, I knew I simply had to read Being Elizabeth. Alas, it's with a heavy heart that I have mixed reviews about Bradford's latest bestseller. Essentially this book takes Elizabeth I's life and......more

Goodreads review by Jencey/ on October 06, 2013

Being Elizabeth is the final chapter in the Ravenscar Dynasty series by Barbara Taylor Bradford. The final chapter chronicles the life of Elizabeth (Tudor) Turner. Synopsis: Elizabeth Turner will finally inherit the Managing Director of Deravenels. Her sister Mary has passed after her bout with cancer......more

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