Angel

Angel
Barbara Taylor Bradford

A captivating story of family and friends, innocence and corruption.Four friends swore eternal friendship when all they had was each other. Now their dazzling careers, their seemingly successful lives, are to be disrupted by a devastating singer – and by the shadow of their past.Rosie Madigan is the angel… an Award-winning costume-designer, she is blessed with worldly goods yet troubled by personal commitments.Gavin Ambrose is the Hollywood megastar: talented and idolized, true love has eluded him.Nell Jeffrey is the glamorous head of an international PR company: her secret love for Rosie’s brother Kevin pierces her usual shrewdness.Kevin Madigan, undercover cop, inhabits a world of danger from which he tries to shelter his friends – but evil has a way of spreading.Angel is the stunning novel of family and friends, of love and loss, of innocence and corruption: it will captivate you from the first page.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

Angel

Copyright

Published by HarperCollinsPublishers Ltd 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF

www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk)

Special overseas edition 1993

This paperback edition 1994

First published in Great Britain by HarperCollinsPublishers 1993

ANGEL. Copyright © Barbara Taylor Bradford 1993. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

Barbara Taylor Bradford asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

This novel is entirely a work of fiction. The names, characters and incidents portrayed in it are the work of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or localities is entirely coincidental.

Source ISBN 9780586212841

Ebook Edition © SEPTEMBER 2011 ISBN: 9780007401567

Version: 2017-11-14

Dedication

For my beloved husband Bob,

with whom I have always shared the

many-splendoured thing.

Epigraph

The angels keep their ancient places;—

Turn but a stone, and start a wing!

’Tis ye, ’tis your estrangèd faces,

That miss the many-splendoured thing.

Francis Thompson

Contents

Cover (#ulink_b75bdae0-a3bb-54f2-a3c8-7723995ba199)

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Part One Shining Stars

One

She stood near one of the huge stone pillars, a…

Two

A blast of cold air hit Rosie in the face…

Three

Almost three hundred people had been invited to the wrap…

Four

It was a glittering day.

Five

Nothing much had changed in the apartment since she had…

Six

Kevin Madigan stood leaning with his back against the bar…

Seven

The bar was called Ouzo-Ouzo and it was located on…

Eight

Out on the sidewalk, the two detectives stood talking for…

Nine