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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 |
What happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception? No one wants to believe their mother is a liar . . . After her mother's funeral, Alice Kent is approached by a man who insists he's her real father. Initially upset and disbelieving, Alice soon discovers that tugging at this loose thread unravels the expertly woven tapestry of lies which was her mother Sally's life. Faced with this staggering deception, Alice decides she must learn the whole, terrible...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2023 |
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 |
Her existence would be the ruin of her mother. Baby Hope was the unfortunate proof of Lady Harvey's adultery. Smuggled out of a privileged aristocratic household to a nearby village, her true identity is kept secret as she grows up in the arms of the poor, but loving, Renton family. When the day comes for Hope to pay her way, what could be more natural than being taken into service by the Harveys? However, when she sees something she should not, she is blackmailed into leaving her...
| 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 |
Uncover a web of thrilling secrets and injustices in this gripping novel from international bestselling author Lesley Pearse She was convicted of killing her best friend . . . Scotland, 1995. Laura Brannigan has been put away for murder. She insists that she didn't kill Jackie. But her search for true justice seems futile. Then she receives a letter that takes her back to her youth and the memory of an old love, Stuart . . . Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she'd...
| 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 |
Rosie is a compelling novel by the bestselling author Lesley Pearse. Her brutal, violent family will be the death of her... Without a mother, Rosie is at the mercy of her father and thuggish brothers. Then one day a friend comes to the farm in the form of cockney housekeeper Heather Farley. But soon enough Heather vanishes, abandoning Rosie to her fate. Only when Thomas Farley comes to find his sister several years later, does Rosie learn the terrible truth about Heather - and her family....
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 1998 |
Be whisked away in the moving story of a girl travelling far and wide for a better life, from the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse Tragedy sent her on a journey far from home . . . Fifteen-year-old Beth's life is shattered when she and her brother Sam are orphaned. Believing that only in America can they make a fresh start, brother and sister leave Liverpool and embark on the greatest adventure of their lives. In New York, Beth's talent with the fiddle earns her the...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |
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 |
In the East End, twelve-year-old Tara witnesses her villain of a father almost kill her mother. She forges a determination then and there to change her life. This is the story of three beautiful and talented women. Mabel, whose great love for a gambling man has brought her close to insanity; gentle Amy, who marries a man brutalised by war and failure; and Tara, who is hungry for success and life on her own terms. To have both, she must battle against the legacy these two women have left her,...
| Автор | Pearse Lesley |
| Год | 2011 |