Set in the 1930s, the classic novel from bestselling author Lesley Pearse tells the story of one girl's struggle against cruelty and, her quest for love. Twelve-year-old Adele Talbot's unhappy mother Rose succumbs to madness after a family tragedy and Adele is placed in a bleak children's home. But when her trust is betrayed she runs away - hoping to find her grandmother in Sussex. By the time she does so, Adele is desperately ill and has to be nursed back to health among the beautiful Rye Marshes. And then she meets the wonderful Michael Bailey. As friendship blossoms into love and they come of age together - Adele becoming a nurse and Michael joining the RAF - she believes she can put her troubled past behind her. But with the outbreak of war and the sudden appearance of Rose, bearing shocking family secrets, suddenly all of Adele's hopes appear impossibly fragile...
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Lesley Pearse's novels have sold five million copies worldwide. Her fourteen most recent books, including Belle and Stolen - both of which went to Number One - are huge bestsellers and available as Penguin paperbacks. Lesley lives near Bristol and has three daughters and two grandchildren.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Forgiveness Doesn't Come Easily-Great Read A+++++!!,
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This review is from: Secrets (Paperback)
After reading my second Lesley Pearse book now, Secrets, I find it hard to love any other author quite as much. Pearse is a very talented writer, and sure knows how to put a beautiful story together.In this book, it begins with the story of Adele as a youngster, and her little sister Pamela getting killed in a hit-and-run accident. Adele is overcome with shock, and fears for her life, because her mother hates her, and loves Pamela. Her mother's wrath will be horrible, and Adele knows she'll be even more hated now than already. And sure enough, this is what happens. Her mother tries to kill Adele, and lives in a drunken stupor. Later Adele gets sent away to an orphanage where she is sexually abused by Mr. Makepeace, the male owner of the group home. Fearing for her life once again, she runs away to her grandmother's home, knowing where she lives, but has a long way to travel there on foot. By the time she reaches Honor, her cantankerous grandma's house, she is very very ill, and collapses on the front porch when she gets there. Her granmother, not happy at all about meeting her granddaughter, begrudgingly nurses her back to health. It is at some point though, that the old lady's heart gives in, and the two become very close. Honor adopts Adele, taking her into her legal guardianship, severing all ties with her mother who is in a mental hospital. The story moves on, Adele grows up, and becomes a nurse, working very hard. She meets her first love, but then there is the impending war, so he is sent away. At some point, her mother returns, and then the whole plot of the story changes, as seeking forgiveness isn't easy, and there are more terrible secrets in the past that will shock everyone with the return of Rose in the picture.
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