Lesley Pearse

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....

Two girls meet in London at the end of the war when, seduced and abandoned by two American airmen, they pool their wits and resources and set off to make a living on the stage....

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....

Baby Hope, the unfortunate proof of Lady Harvey's adultery, is smuggled out of a privileged aristocratic household to a nearby village....

When Ruby and Verity met as girls, they came from different worlds. Verity was privately educated, living in a beautiful Hampstead home, while Ruby was being raised in extreme poverty....

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Are Belle's courage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home? Find out....

Sussex, 2003. When a beautiful blonde girl is found half-drowned on a beach, she has no memory of who she is or what horrors have left her there....

Scotland, 1995. On the hills of Cornton Vale Prison. She was convicted of killing her best friend....

Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart....

Twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea....

Orphan Georgia James suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her....

Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed forever when both her parents are killed in a fire. She is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school....

Susan walks into a busy doctor's surgery and guns down two members of staff. Then she calmly waits for the police....

London, 1939: Eighteen-year-old Mari is defiant, strong-willed and selfish....

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....

Fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother, Duncan, lose their mother to an insane asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house....

Coronation Day, 1953. In the Somerset village of Sawbridge, young shopkeeper Molly Heywood slips away from the celebrations to her friend's cottage and makes a shocking discovery....

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....

Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak, cruel children's home after a family tragedy drives her mother to madness....