É impossível não gostar de um livro desta autora e há muito tempo que deixei de ser capaz de dar uma opinião minimamente objetiva eheh É mais um livro excelente, com uma história que nos prende até à última pagina e que, neste caso, continua no 2º livro. Não tem muitas mortes, o que é estranho te...
I really really disliked this book.The main character appears to switch personality every five seconds as do many of the other characters. The style of writing makes the characters inaccessible - I still didn't feel I knew Belle after two hundred odd pages.The plot twists were far too numerous, t...
Forgive Me by Lesley Pearse is an amazing read. It starts off with the suicide of Eva's mother, for no apparent reason, and then follows Eva and her family's life as they all struggle to come to terms with what has happened. The way that the plot develops with many twists and turns, unexpected ...
Would you sacrifice your future for the sake of your past? One young woman in search of a past - and a future ... Sweet-natured but dappy Daisy Buchan drifts from job to job and takes her policeman boyfriend Joel for granted. She's happy, but she doesn't know what she wants from life. But when...
I have never read a bad book by this author. One of her best, imho, is Trust Me and I have recommended it to many people. Although her books tend to be on the big side, 600-700 pages, they are quick reads.Back Cover Blurb:This is the story of three beautiful and talented women. Mabel, whose gre...
Schon früh verliert Camellia ihren Vater und das Leben an der Seite ihrer Mutter Bonny, die sich nur für andere Männer und Alkohol zu interessieren scheint, ist nicht immer einfach. Als Bonny nun tot aufgefunden wird, deutet alles auf Selbstmord hin. Camellia ist nun auf sich gestellt und versuch...
Could you find the strength to save your family?Can young Charlie find the strength to save her family?One glorious summer's day, sixteen-year-old Charlie Welsh has her privileged childhood brought to an abrupt and terrifying end when she witnesses her mother being brutally attacked in her own ga...
Well it’s a very long time I read Lesley as I had preferred the books by Indian authors like Durjoy datta and Nikita Singh, the GEORGIA, as her earlier novels this book is also came with same theme a girl rises out the triumph over adversity. I had intrigued about this book because it is her debu...
Like every book I've read by Lesley Pearse, I thoroughly enjoyed Charity. This book starts off telling a story of young girl called Charity. She is growing up in poverty with her two brothers and sister. Her mum isn't interested in the welfare of her kids and her dad is more interested in sexuall...
'You will live to regret this!' is Clara Brown's opinion when her headstrong daughter Fifi secretly marries Dan Reynolds, a handsome but itinerant bricklayer. Dan and Fifi move to London and a seedy flat in Dale Street, Kennington, and despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, F...
She had been in the house in France now for four days. She was locked into a room at the top of the building like a prisoner, yet the two women who came in and out to bring her food, put coal on the fire, empty the slop bucket and bring water to wash in were kind to her.They didn’t speak English,...
She was sitting in an armchair, her legs over the arm. Verity was busy embroidering some flowers along the edge of a cardigan to try and make it look new. She looked up at her friend. ‘If Wilby catches you sitting like that, you’ll get a rocket for being unladylike,’ she said. ‘But why don’t you ...
It hadn’t for one moment occurred to him that she wouldn’t welcome his offer of help.‘Damn her,’ he muttered. ‘A heroine she may be, but she’s clearly lacking a brain.’A dear friend had once claimed years ago that ‘Bozzie’ was addicted to lost causes. He was referring to his passion for whores in...
‘I’ve got some business in St Andrews and I expect it will take a couple of days to wind up. May I let you know tomorrow if I’ll need to stay longer than two nights?’Belle Howell was every bit as glamorous as Stuart had said. Her pale blue silk dress rustled seductively as she moved, diamonds twi...
She hadn’t meant to be, but the moment she stepped into the London hospital in Whitechapel, the smell and the injuries all around her made her feel sick. Then, when she was ordered to take off her clothes and get into bed in a cubicle, she became frightened too, so she asked the nurse to patch he...
She had her special tight-lipped expression on her face which Rosie had come to know always meant trouble.Rosie was still puzzling over the unexpected sour note the day before had ended on. She hoped Matron’s appearance now wasn’t connected.Mr Cook had got Donald and Rosie back to Carrington Hall...
Looking across to number 103, she felt a mixture of relief she’d finally found it, and trepidation at what was to come.She had only been to London a few times in her life, and then only to art galleries or the West End shops, so she had little idea of what to expect of ordinary working-class area...
‘I could understand him scooting off for a while if he thought he was going to get a lot of flak about abandoning Susan in her moment of need. But you’d think he’d miss all those people he worked for.’They were in the restaurant of the Welcombe Hotel, a gracious country house hotel with its own g...
‘The rest of you will go outside as usual.’It was the end of July, school had broken up for the summer holidays just the day before, no one had had any time yet to do anything wrong. The named girls all looked at each other in consternation, but they didn’t dare speak, Sister Teresa was standing ...
‘Don’t they look wonderful?’ she said to Phil, who was cleaning up dropped plaster from the floor. ‘I can’t believe how they’ve transformed the room. It looks twice the size, really modern and airy.’ It was Sunday afternoon, and two weeks had passed since Phil first brough...
She had of course looked at her face in a hand mirror daily, and caught sight of herself reflected in shop windows, but the latter images were never clear, and she always averted her eyes as she didn’t want to be reminded of her ragged and unkempt state.But here in front of her now was the girl s...
It didn’t help that her eye was closed up and looked terrible, and she couldn’t seem to accept that there would be no morning cup of tea or breakfast. A little later she began raging that she hadn’t been able to sleep for hunger, and how was she going to be able to stand that hunger growing ever ...
It was very quiet in the basement, but if she strained her ears she could just make out the sound of laughter and the tinkling sounds of a piano from above.It was bad enough to think that women were selling their bodies to men up there, but she was even more affronted that Theo would bring her he...
Around twenty or so patients waited to be seen, some with emergency dressings over wounds, still caked in dust and grime, staring mindlessly as if unable to comprehend what had happened to them.Charley King glanced around the waiting area anxiously. He had left Gray’s Mansions soon after they fre...
She had pink cheeks from the invigorating sea voyage, a sprinkling of freckles on her nose, and she looked rested and bright-eyed.Zandra had been dozing in her chair, but as Matilda bounded in she woke, her face breaking into a wide, toothless smile. ‘My dear, what a lovely surprise. I didn’t thi...
‘They asked me if I would run the cake stall at the summer fête,’ she blurted out. ‘I can’t believe it! Mrs Parsons said that I was the best cake maker in the village and I was an inspiration to the younger women.’Belle was doing the ironing, and although Mog’s triumph was hardly important when j...
It was a shabby, three-storey terraced house in a row of eight equally run-down ones. The other side of the street had fared even worse for, though the bomb sites between some of the houses had been cleared of rubble, weeds had taken over, and only partially covered the piles of dumped rubbish.As...