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  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241678121
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $34.99
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The Girl with the Suitcase





The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author

London 1941

When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn’t be more different.

But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground Mary’s life is set in change forever.

After waking up in hospital, injured but alive, the nurse mistakes her for Elizabeth and hands over her suitcase with Elizabeth’s money and tickets to Ireland inside.

This is Mary’s chance to escape the hardship of her life and start afresh.

What could go wrong?

  • Published: 15 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241678121
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $34.99
Categories:

About the author

Lesley Pearse

International bestselling author Lesley Pearse has lived a life as rich with incidents, setbacks and joys as any found in her novels. By the mid-sixties she was living in London, sharing flats, partying hard and married to a trumpet player in a jazz-rock band. She has also worked as a nanny and a Playboy bunny, and designed and made clothes to sell to boutiques.

It was only after having one son and three daughters that Lesley began to write. She published her first book at forty-nine and has not looked back since.

Lesley is still a party girl.

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