An equal chance - Brenda Clarke (First edition)

Harriet Chance-Canossa-Contarini-Cavendish-Georgiadis-Wingfield is one of the richest women in the world. Owner of the global chain of Last Chance Restaurants, she has struggled all her life to achieve the happiness which now, at last, seems to be within her grasp.

But first, on the occasion of her sixtieth birthday, she has an announcement to make to her devoted staff and to her three children – Michael, her stolid selfish eldest son; Piers, the indolent product of her hated marriage to the Honourable Hallam Cavendish; and Elena, their headstrong half-sister.

Summoned together to the lovely island of Agios Georgios, they wait expectantly for her to speak. What she has to say will change their lives – and hers – for ever.

In the heart-warming tradition of Barbara Taylor Bradford’s A Woman of Substance, An Equal Chance tells the story of a remarkable woman who has built up a business empire from nothing. But Harriet must acknowledge a hard-won truth about her own family before she can enjoy her success to the full….