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When Betty's husband returns from the war broken and haunted, she knows her marriage is doomed.Taking a fleeting chance to escape, she goes on the run armed with a new identity. Yet penniless and alone, Betty quickly finds that starting again is much harder than she thought.And she never imagined it could end in murder . . .
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Жанр | Современная проза |
| Год | 2020 |
It's 1964 and twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by glamorous Gloria and the goings-on at her house over the road.Who are the mysterious women that keep coming and going in the strange black car?Then one night, Gloria's house burns to the ground. Bodies are found in the wreckage.And Katy's horror turns to disbelief when her own father is arrested and charged with murder.Determined to prove his innocence, Katy sets out to uncover the truth about the mysterious house across the street...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Жанр | Литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2019 |
Spring 1935. On London's Hampstead Heath two girls meet by chance: well-mannered and smartly dressed Verity and dishevelled and grubby Ruby. Yet the mismatched pair form an instant friendship strong enough to survive their parent's disapproval. When war engulfs the country - sending Ruby to Devon while Verity struggles to find a new beginning under a shadow from her past - the girls are convinced they will always be there for each other. Until the day one breaks the other's...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2017 |
In Willow Close, everyone is a suspect…
Nina and Conrad thought they'd discovered their dream home.
But on the day they move in, a body is found - the victim attacked and killed in the woods.
As police interview witnesses, they soon discover each resident hiding their own secrets. Because few in the Close are exactly who they seem…
Nina and Conrad thought they'd found their dream home.
Now, it might just be their worst nightmare…
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2022 |
After the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice Kent is approached by a man named Angus Tweedy. He claims to be her father and tells her that he served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously. What does he hope to gain by telling her this now, thirty years on? How can her adored dad Ralph not be her true father? And why did her mother betray her so badly? She had accepted Sally's many faults, and her reluctance to ever speak of the past. But faced with this staggering deception, Alice...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2022 |
From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes the compulsive page-turner about a girl searching for the truth, which may be a little too close to home . . . Her family is threatened and only she can save it. When sixteen-year-old Charlie witnesses a brutal attack on her mother by two strangers she is shocked and terrified. But after talking to the police, she realises that her father's business dealings can't be so innocent . . . With her father away, it is left...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes the compelling tale of one girl caught in a family mystery, a struggle against cruelty and a quest for love Without her mother she is alone in the world . . . 1930. Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak, cruel children's home after a family tragedy drives her mother to madness. But when trust is betrayed Adele has no choice but to run away . . . Alone and friendless, she heads for Sussex, to seek out the grandmother...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
She killed two people in cold blood . . . But why?
Susan is the woman who walked in a doctor's surgery one day and committed murder.
Beth is the lawyer assigned to defend Susan. But her client is uncooperative.
Until both women realise that twenty-nine years earlier, they were childhood friends . . .
While the evidence mounts up, their friendship starts to regrow.
But for one of them, there can be no happy ending . . .
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
From the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse comes a moving story of family, adoption and identity Losing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had . . . Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies, she finds her secure existence thrown into turmoil by the discovery of a scrapbook. Inside it is information about her real mother. However, when Daisy drops everything to go in search of her roots, she uncovers a harrowing story of greed, misery and corruption. She also...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
Discover the moving novel based on a true story about a woman triumphing against overwhelming odds, from the international bestseller Lesley Pearse She made one mistake, and now she'll never see home again . . . Mary, a Cornish mariner's daughter, makes the biggest mistake of her short life when she steals a silk hat. Convicted and sentenced to be transported to Australia, she endures horrific conditions aboard ship before landing in a brutal and barbaric country. It will take all...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
Lose yourself in this powerful historical novel based on a real life tragedy from the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse For one girl, betrayal goes hand in hand with trust... When their father tragically kills their mother, Dulcie and her sister are sent to an orphanage. Told that a 'better life' awaits them in another country, they are shipped off to Australia. But the promises made turn out to be lies. And it seems to Dulcie that everyone who ever said 'trust...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
Discover this thrilling exploration of love, life and morality from the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse She defied her parents and married for love . . . Following her heart, Fifi moves with Dan to London where they rent a seedy flat in Dale Street, Kennington. Though Fifi must now become acquainted with squalor, she is soon drawn into the goings on behind the shabby front doors of her new neighbours. But it is the Muckles, at number 11, who are the street's focus....
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
One good deed takes her into another world . . . Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime. She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York. Traveling across the vast plains to the Wild West, she finds herself in San Francisco, a city in the grip of the gold rush. Streetwise and...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
A woman washes up on a Sussex beach, barely alive.
She's wearing an old-fashioned dress and her hair has been hacked off.
There are signs she has been bound by her wrists and ankles.
She doesn't know how she ended up there, or even her own name.
The police are baffled and when the doctors examine her, they make a shocking discovery: She has recently given birth.
Who is she?
And where is her baby?
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2010 |
War threatens to take all she has loved and lived for... When Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the trenches of Northern France, she knows she cannot stand idly by awaiting his return. Volunteering to help the wounded, Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. There, tragedy brings her face to face with Etienne, a man from her past who she'd never quite forgotten. Torn between forbidden passion, loyalty and love, Belle is caught in an impossible...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Жанр | Современная зарубежная проза на английском языке, Художественная литература на английском языке |
| Год | 2018 |
Find the liar. Find the killer . . . Amelia White didn't expect her career as a reporter to start like this: by finding a young woman's body, just around the corner from her Shepherd's Bush bedsit. With rumours already spreading about this poor murder victim, she seizes her chance to write the true story. But when more bodies are found, the police are baffled. Reporting on the story, Amelia meets witnesses as well as suspects. If she can only work out who the liar among them is,...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Жанр | Детектив Остросюжетный роман |
| Год | 2021 |
Is there a murderer across the street? 1964. Twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by glamorous Gloria and the goings-on at her house over the road. Who are the mysterious women that keep coming and going in the strange black car? Then one night, Gloria's house burns to the ground. Bodies are found in the wreckage. And Katy's horror turns to disbelief when her own father is arrested and charged with murder. Determined to prove his innocence, Katy sets out to uncover the...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Жанр | Современная проза |
| Год | 2019 |
The compelling new novel from the international number 1 bestselling author Coronation Day, 1953. Molly Heywood slips away from the celebrations and makes a shocking discovery: her friend Cassie is dead and her six-year-old daughter Petal has vanished without a trace. The only clue is a letter from London, where Cassie once lived. Now it is up to Molly to head to there and uncover the past that her friend kept so well hidden. The closer Molly gets to the truth, the more perilous her journey...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2015 |