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Lesley Pearse

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Lesley Pearse is a British bestselling novelist known for emotionally charged family sagas and historical fiction centred on women overcoming poverty, violence, betrayal and social exclusion. Born in Rochester, Kent, she spent part of her childhood in a children’s home after the death of her mother. She did not publish her first novel until she was forty-eight, but went on to sell more than ten million books worldwide. Her fiction draws on a varied life that included work as a dressmaker, shopkeeper and nightclub employee.

Her novels include Never Look Back, Remember Me, Hope, Gypsy, Belle, The Promise, Survivor and Dead to Me. Many move between Britain, Europe, Australia and the United States during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, combining historical events with stories of migration, war, crime and personal reinvention. Pearse is particularly associated with resilient female protagonists whose lives expose the limited choices available to women in earlier periods.

Periods and events

American Civil War1861–1865 CE Appeasement and the Road to War1933–1939 CE Austerity Britain1945–1954 CE California Gold Rush1848–1855 CE Cold War and Post-war Era1945–present Edwardian Society1901–1914 CE Great Depression1929–1939 CE Post-war Britain1945–1963 CE The Blitz1940–1941 CE Transportation to Australia1788–1868 CE Victorian London1837–1901 CE Western Front1914–1918 CE World War II1939–1945 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Lesley Pearse (1 series)

The Belle Trilogy in Order

by Lesley Pearse 3 books 4.4(37,897)

The Belle Trilogy follows Belle Reilly and the next generation of her family from Edwardian London through two world wars. Belle begins in 1910, when a sheltered girl raised in a brothel is abducted and trafficked to New Orleans. The Promise returns to Belle during the First World…

Historical fiction

Standalone historical fiction by Lesley Pearse (10 books)

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