title: Ageless Beauty: The Secrets of Aging Beautifully
author:  Liz Wilde 
description: Liz Wilde is the author of 14 bestselling books on beauty, health, and well-being. For Ryland Peters &amp; Small she has written "Unlock Your Potential", "The Busy Women's Home Spa Book", "Home Spa: De-Stress", "Home Spa: Revive", and "Home Spa: Indulge".
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  Hold The Dream  
  
  
  Barbara Taylor Bradford  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  BOOK
  
  
  ONE  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  _I
  
  
  speak the truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I
  
  
  dare a little more, as I grow older._  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  MONTAIGNE  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Chapter
  
  
  One_  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Emma Harte was almost eighty
  
  
  years old.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  She did not look it, for she had
  
  
  always carried her years lightly. Certainly Emma felt like a much
  
  
  younger woman as she sat at her desk in the upstairs parlor of
  
  
  Pennistone Royal on this bright April morning of 1969.  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Her posture was erect in the
  
  
  chair, and her alert green eyes, wise and shrewd under the wrinkled
  
  
  lids, missed nothing. The burnished red-gold hair had turned to shining
  
  
  silver long ago, but it was impeccably coiffed in the latest style, and
  
  
  the widow's peak was as dramatic as ever above her oval face. If this
  
  
  was now lined and scored by the years, her excellent bone structure had
  
  
  retained its clarity and her skin held the t