Barbara Taylor Bradford signed book

Auction Description
Children with AIDS charity are auctioning this signed book by Barbara Taylor Bradford entitled ‘Three weeks in Paris’.

Born in Upper Armley, Leeds, in Yorkshire, Barbara was the only child of Winston and Freda Taylor. Ask the internationally renowned best-selling author Barbara with her parents who influenced her the most throughout her childhood, and she will unhesitatingly tell you it was her mother. Freda Taylor was a former children's nurse and nanny -- and a voracious reader who introduced Barbara to books at the tender age of 4. By the time she was 12, she had read all of Dickens and the Brontes. Seeds for the future were sown.

After attending Christ Church Elementary School and Northcote Private School for Girls, Barbara Taylor Bradford started work as a typist for the Yorkshire Evening Post. She was 15 1/2. Within six months she was promoted to cub reporter in the newsroom. "It was because I was such a bad typist and was ruining so much of their expensive paper!" she joked. Nevertheless, at 18 she became the newspaper's Woman's Page Editor. At age 20 she decided to head for London, where she became Fashion Editor of the magazine Woman's Own. In the ensuing years in Fleet Street, hub of Britain's publishing empire, she covered every beat from crime to show business reporting for the London Evening News, Today Magazine and other publications. The grounding paid off.

Today Barbara Taylor Bradford is published in over 90 countries in 40 languages, with sales figures in excess of 81 million.

This would make a great present for a fan.

Visit Barbara Taylor Bradford's official website at

www.barbarataylorbradford.com

85% of the proceeds from this book with go towards helping CWAC continue to fight against paediatric HIV and AIDS within children.