The Rich Are Different by Susan Howatch (1977) / [ASIN: B00CI79GXU ] / ISBN: 9780449207703 When ambitious, exciting Dinah Slade becomes passionately - and dangerously - involved in the private and public life of American millionaire Paul Van Zale, it is the beginning of a violent battle over his business empire and a ruthless struggle by two women to win his heart. We follow the fortunes of Dinah Slade from the boardrooms of Wall Street across the ocean to the Norfolk Broads, from the Roaring Twenties to the Great Depression and the Second World War. For two decades she stakes everything on winning the fight, in business and in love - and at any cost ... [From the Back Cover]: Dinah Slade was young enough to be Paul Van Zale's daughter. But she didn't care. She was a very ambitious and beautiful woman with her eye on Van Zale's tremendous fortune. However, she hadn't counted on falling in love. Paul found himself attracted to Dinah in a way he had long forgotten. Her vitality, her sensuality, consumed him. With her he could forget his past, his wife, his enemies, his empire.... "Susan Howatch has surpassed herself. This is a mighty book." --- ORLANDO TRIBUNE. 'One of the most original novelists writing today ― COSMOPOLITAN. 'Grippingly readable ― Sunday TIMES. 'The work of a mesmerising storyteller―' Daily Telegraph. [About the Author]: Susan Howatch, author of numerous bestsellers and one of the most respected saga writers of her generation, has been compared to Trollope and Dickens. She is the author of PENMARRIC and THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE, as well as a series of six novels about the Church of England in the twentieth century. She lives in Kent. ==== https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Howatch
