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  • Published: 3 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099557470
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $22.99
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Charity

Where can she go with no-one left to care for her?




From the No.1 bestselling author of Stolen.

A heartbreaking historical novel from the No.1 bestselling author of Stolen
Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realises just how alone she really is.

Determined to be reunited with her siblings and to make something of herself, Charity runs away to London and begins to forge a new life.

  • Published: 3 March 2011
  • ISBN: 9780099557470
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 688
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Lesley Pearse

Lesley Pearse was brought up in South London in various orphanages from the age of three. She learned about the Soho club scene and the music business during the Sixties with the late John Pritchard. Her novels have sold over ten million copies worldwide. Lesley has three daughters and three grandchildren and lives in Bristol.

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 now lives just outside Bristol. She has three daughters and two grandchildren.

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