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  • Published: 23 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241950371
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $22.99

The Promise




Another blockbuster from one of the nation's best-loved storytellers picks up from where the Number One bestseller Belle left off . . .

War threatens to take all she has loved and lived for . . .

When Belle Reilly's husband Jimmy enlists and heads for the trenches of Northern France, she knows she cannot stand idly by awaiting his return. Volunteering to help the wounded, Belle is posted to France as a Red Cross ambulance driver. There, tragedy brings her face to face with Etienne, a man from her past who she'd never quite forgotten.

Torn between forbidden passion, loyalty and love, Belle is caught in an impossible situation. Will the brutality and carnage of war make the honorable path the hardest one to take? Or will fate intervene and finally lead her to lasting happiness?

  • Published: 23 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241950371
  • Imprint: Michael Joseph
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 528
  • RRP: $22.99

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.

Find out more about Lesley and keep up to date with what she's been doing by following her on Twitter@LesleyPearse or by signing up for her regular newsletter at www.LesleyPearse.com

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Praise for The Promise

Full of love, passion and heartbreak

Best

Glorious, heartwarming

Woman & Home

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

Woman's Weekly