Lesley Pearse (30 kníh)
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Lesley Pearse Belle ENLesley Pearse, author of the UK and international best-sellers A Lesser Evil and Trust Me, takes her heroine from London to New Orleans and beyond in her powerful and moving historical novel Belle. She witnessed a murder - and now her life is in danger... Fifteen year-old Belle, though raised in a London brothel, is an innocent. But when she witnesses one of the girls brutally strangled by a client, she is cast…
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Lesley Pearse Bojovnice CZRussell, 1938 Mariette je vzdorovitá, neústupná a sebestředná sedmnáctiletá dívka. Malé město Russell na Novém Zélandu, plné klepů, nevytváří dostatečný prostor pro Mariettiny ambice a její oddaní rodiče se obávají o dceřinu reputaci. Svět je na pokraji války a výlet do Evropy se stává riskantním, ale jiné možnosti se zdají ještě horší, a tak je Mari poslána do Londýna na návštěvu ke strýci Noahovi. Mari, které…
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Lesley Pearse BojovniceRussell, 1938 Mariette je vzdorovitá, neústupná a sebestředná sedmnáctiletá dívka. Malé město Russell na Novém Zélandu, plné klepů, nevytváří dostatečný prostor pro Mariettiny ambice a její oddaní rodiče se obávají o dceřinu reputaci. Svět je na pokraji války a výlet do Evropy se stává riskantním, ale jiné možnosti se zdají ještě horší, a tak je Mari poslána do Londýna na návštěvu ke strýci Noahovi. Mari, které…
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Lesley Pearse Dead to Me ENA compelling new story from international number one bestselling author Lesley Pearse. Spring 1935. Two girls meet by chance on Hampstead Heath. To an outsider, they could not appear more different. Verity is well-mannered and smartly dressed, living with her parents in a beautiful house close to the heath. Ruby is dishevelled and grubby, used to a life of squalor where she is forced to steal to survive. Yet there's…
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Lesley Pearse Dead to Me ENA compelling new story from international number one bestselling author Lesley Pearse Spring 1935. Two girls meet by chance on Hampstead Heath. To an outsider, they could not appear more different. Verity is well-mannered and smartly dressed, living with her parents in a beautiful house close to the heath. Ruby is dishevelled and grubby, used to a life of squalor where she is forced to steal to survive. Yet there's…
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Lesley Pearse Faith EN1995, Scotland - The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. For two years she's been battling for justic - insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ...Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she'd escaped an abusive home and together with new…
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Lesley Pearse Faith ENShe was convicted for killing her best friend... Laura Brannigan is in jail for murder. She insists that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. But her search for justice seems futile. Then she receives a letter that takes her back to her youth. Twenty years ago Laura had escaped an abusive home and together with Jackie she'd made a fresh start. The pair had sworn to be sisters for ever. And Stuart had come into…
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Lesley Pearse Forgive Me ENLesley Pearse, No. 1 UK bestselling author of The Promise and Belle, is back with Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past.Cheltenham, 1991 When Eva Patterson returns home from work one day, a devastating scene awaits her. Her mother, Flora, lies dead in the bath. Beside her is a note saying only: Forgive Me. Until then, Eva always believed her family's life would be…
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Lesley Pearse Forgive Me ENLesley Pearse, No. 1 UK bestselling author of The Promise and Belle, is back with Forgive Me, a compelling story of a daughter uncovering her mother's secret past. Eva Patterson's life is forever altered by the devastating discovery of her mother, Flora, dead in the bath leaving only a note: Forgive Me. Until Flora's suicide, Eva's world had been secure - but overnight everything changes. For when Flora leaves Eva a…
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Lesley Pearse Gypsy ENLiverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home ... Fifteen-year-old Beth's dreams are shattered when she, her brother Sam and baby sister Molly are orphaned. Sam believes that only in America can they make their fortunes so, reluctantly leaving Molly with adoptive parents, brother and sister embark on the greatest adventure of their lives. Onboard the steamer to New York there are rogues…
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Lesley Pearse Gypsy ENGypsy is Lesley Pearse's latest historical novel. 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 friendship of gamblers, chancers…
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Lesley Pearse Hope ENSomerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery...Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family, unaware of her true identity. But fate has harsh plans for Hope and a chain of events sees her forced to lead a vagabond's existence until she finds the courage to fight…
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Lesley Pearse Hope ENSomerset, 1836, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery ... Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family, unaware of her true identity. But fate has harsh plans for Hope and a chain of events sees her forced to lead a vagabond's existence until she finds the courage to fight…
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Lesley Pearse Lesser Evil ENWhen Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating.
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Lesley Pearse Nezapomeň na měPíše se rok 1786. Mary Broadová, dcera rybáře z Cornwallu, je za pošetilou krádež klobouku odsouzena k smrti oběšením. Nakonec je však ortel změněn a Mary je deportována do Austrálie s jednou z prvních várek trestanců...
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Lesley Pearse Nezlomná CZBelle Reillyové je teprve dvacet let, přesto toho má už mnoho za sebou – únos, znásilnění, prodej do nevěstince. Ačkoli se musela stát prostitutkou, nenechala se zlomit a nakonec se jí podařilo vrátit zpátky domů. Provdala se a uskutečnila svůj dávný sen – otevřela si dámské kloboučnictví. Jednoho dne však do obchodu vkročí Etienne, muž, který jí před lety zachránil život. Setkání v obou rozvíří city, jež měly…
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Lesley Pearse Společnice CZPatnáctiletá Belle vyrůstá v londýnském nevěstinci U Annie, aniž by tušila, co se každodenně odehrává v pokojích nahoře. Annie je totiž její matka a úzkostlivě střeží dceřinu nevinnost. Belle se však nečekaně stane svědkem surové vraždy jedné z matčiných dívek, kterou zabije zákazník. Tato noc změní celý její život. Aby vrah nebyl prozrazen, dívku unese a prodá do pařížského nevěstince. Belle se ocitá v krutém světě…
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Lesley Pearse Stolen ENSussex, 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. But an article about her in a Brighton newspaper rings alarm bells for beautician, Dale, who shows the police photographs of Lotte Wainright. The girls met working on a cruise ship and their friendship blossomed as they sailed the seas of South America, until Lotte fell…
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Lesley Pearse Survivor ENLesley Pearse, No.1 bestselling author of The Promise and Belle is back with Survivor, the story of Mariette, a born fighter.It is 1938 and Mariette Carrera is a defiant, strong-willed and selfish eighteen-year-old. And sooner or later, if she stays in the small, gossipy town of Russell, New Zealand, she'll get herself into some serious trouble. Her doting parents, Belle and Etienne, fear for her reputation. So,…
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Lesley Pearse Survivor ENLesley Pearse, No.1 bestselling author of The Promise and Belle is back with Survivor, the story of Mariette, a born fighter. It is 1938 and Mariette Carrera is a defiant, strong-willed and selfish eighteen-year-old. And sooner or later, if she stays in the small, gossipy town of Russell, New Zealand, she'll get herself into some serious trouble. Her doting parents, Belle and Etienne, fear for her reputation. So,…
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Lesley Pearse The House Across the StreetTwenty-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. But who is the woman who arrives in the ...
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