ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Several years ago my husband and I met Iffet Özgönül, a professor of archaeology, and became friends. Iffet also runs her own boutique travel business, Peten Travels, and it was she who looked after us so well on our first trip to Istanbul. She has been doing so ever since, on our many visits to the fascinating city where she lives. I must thank Iffet for allowing me to make her a character in this book, and for her tremendous help with research on Istanbul. Our e-mails were constantly flying back and forth the entire time I was writing it, and her enthusiasm was remarkable.
To bring back to life an historical event of long ago, every author has to resort to books by other writers. I am lucky in that the mentor of my writing career as an author was the late war correspondent and historian, Cornelius Ryan. To recreate details of the end of the Second World War in Europe, I re-read Connie’s famous book The Last Battle. It is as marvellously vivid and moving today as it was when it was first published. Certainly it helped me to truly envision and ‘live’ the harrowing and dramatic events Connie depicted so eloquently and with such humanity. No wonder it was a bestseller. Once again I found it impossible to put down. He was also the author of The Longest Day and A Bridge Too Far, and not surprisingly the French Government awarded him the French Legion of Honour.
I wish to thank Lonnie Ostrow of Bradford Enterprises, a whiz on the computer, who managed to get all of my many edits onto the manuscript under great pressure, and with good humour and efficiency.
I owe thanks to Lynne Drew, Publishing Director of HarperCollins, London, for her ideas, suggestions and enthusiasm. Thanks are also due to my editors Susan Opie and Penny Isaac, as well as to the entire team at HarperCollins, London.
My thanks to my editor Jennifer Enderlin for her enthusiasm and suggestions, and to Sally Richardson, President of St Martin’s Press, New York, for her enthusiastic support, and the rest of the St Martin’s team.
Last but not least, I must thank my husband Robert Bradford for his encouragement and involvement with all my books, but most especially this one. As the first reader his comments and suggestions are invaluable. His love, devotion and support are incomparable, not to mention his infinite patience with a wife always involved in time-consuming books that seem to take over the entire household.
Other Books by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Series
THE EMMA HARTE SAGA
A Woman of Substance
Hold the Dream
To Be the Best
Emma’s Secret
Unexpected Blessings
Just Rewards
Breaking the Rules
Others
Voice of the Heart
Act of Will
The Women in His Life
Angel
Everything to Gain
Dangerous to Know
Love in Another Town
Her Own Rules
A Secret Affair
Power of a Woman
A Sudden Change of Heart
Where You Belong
The Triumph of Katie Byrne
Three Weeks in Paris
Playing the Game
Series
THE RAVENSCAR TRILOGY
The Ravenscar Dynasty
Heirs of Ravenscar
Being Elizabeth
About the Author
Barbara Taylor Bradford was born and raised in England. She started her writing career on the Yorkshire Evening Post and later worked as a journalist in London. Her fi rst novel, A Woman of Substance, became an enduring bestseller and was followed by twenty-six others, including the bestselling Harte series. Barbara’s books have sold more than eighty-two million copies worldwide in more than ninety countries and forty languages, and ten mini-series and television movies have been made of her books. In October of 2007, Barbara was appointed an OBE by the Queen for her services to literature. She lives in New York City with her husband, television producer Robert Bradford.Letter from a Stranger is her twenty-seventh novel.
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