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The Girl with the Suitcase

My Autobiography

The Long and Winding Road

Betrayal

Deception

The emotionally gripping Sunday Times bestseller from Britain’s favourite storyteller

Suspects

A missing teenager. An outcast woman. And a girl determined to find the truth . . . From the Sunday Times bestselling author

The Woman in the Wood

Liar

‘Storytelling at its best' – DAILY EXPRESS

You'll Never See Me Again

The House Across the Street

Belle

The Promise

Trust Me

Rosie

One mother's hidden past. Her daughter's life changed forever . . .

Forgive Me

A gripping and emotional story from the bestselling author of Stolen

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Never Look Back

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Father Unknown

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Orphaned, lost. Who is she really? One young woman's search across the globe for a past - and a future . . . 
 
Losing her adopted mother threatens all she's ever had . . .

With characters it is impossible not to care about, this is storytelling at its very best

An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry

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 her adoptive mother dies and leaves her twenty-five-year-old daughter a scrapbook of memories, Daisy finally discovers who she is and where she came from. Her real mother was a teenage farmer's daughter from Cornwall - and Daisy drops everything to go and find her. But in going in search of her past, is Daisy risking the future of her relationship not only with her adored dad but also with Joel? And will she be able to deal with the truth about her real parents and the real Daisy?

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 risks hurting her adored Dad, the only true family she has left. 
 
Can she cope with the truth about her real parents? 
 
And more importantly, who is the real Daisy? 
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'With characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best' Daily Mail 
 
'Lose yourself in this epic saga' Bella 
 
'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' Woman's Weekly

Lesley Pearse was told as a child that she had too much imagination for her own good. When she grew up she worked her way through a number of jobs, including nanny, bunny girl, dressmaker and full-time mother, before, at the age of forty-nine, settling upon a career that would allow her gifts to blossom: she became a published writer. Lesley lives in Devon and has three daughters and four grandchildren. 
 
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