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Remember Me by Lesley Pearse

☆☆☆☆☆

If you are looking for a historical romance book inspired by true events, go read this one! If you are looking for a strong, likable female lead character, good love interests, a lot of twist and turns, go read this book!

It captivated me until the last page, and I felt like I was part of the story. I grew a connection with the characters in this book. Mary Broad, our protagonist, who exalts femininity yet strength will surely stay with you long after you finish this book. I didn't want to finish it, I just wanted more.

Lesley's writing is fluid and a nice read when you want to decompress and dive deep inside a story. I was never really into historical romance until I picked up this book, but it completely changed the game for me.

Surely a new favorite book. 🤍

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The Long and Winding Road; My Autobiography by Lesley Cooper

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Michael Joseph (29 Feb. 2024)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241453208ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241453209 Book Blurb One of the world’s bestselling storytellers, Lesley Pearse writes brilliantly about survivors. Why? Because she is one herself . . .o Born during the Second World War, Lesley’s innocence came to an abrupt end when a neighbour found her, aged…

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#PublicationDay The Long and Winding Road by Lesley Pearse

Happy Publication Day! – From the No.1 bestselling author Lesley Pearce comes her own unforgettable story – The Long and Winding Road. Pic credit/copyright: Charlotte Murphy About the Author Lesley Pearse is one of the world’s leading storytellers with numerous No.1 bestsellers to her name and fans who span the globe. A Lesley Pearse book is sold every 4 minutes in the UK and with sales of…

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Just finish this book and let me say, WHAT A CRAZY BOOK!!

I cried almost all the time that I read.

And know, let's get start another book from the same writer.

É só eu que gosto de publicar em inglês porque parece que é muito mais chique?!

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4. Acredita em signos?

5. Qual seu nome?

6. Comida favorita?

11. Pretende se casar?

12. Pretende ter filhos?

14. Qual sua altura?

19. Tem piercings?

22. Sabe andar de Skate?

25. Já andou de avião?

26. Melhor amigo (a)?

27. Livro favorito.

29. Gosta de gatos?

31. Gosta de funk?

32. Melhor música no momento pra você.

33. Toca algum instrumento?

34. Tem tatuagem?

36. Já mudou por alguém?

37. Já foi traído(a)?

38. Já traiu alguém?

39. Se não morasse aqui, qual país gostaria de morar?

44. O que sempre deixa pra fazer amanhã?

45. Um canal do youtube que vc gosta?

48. Um hobbie?

49. Uma característica sobre vc que pouca gente sabe?

50. Qual a última pessoa que vc falou “eu te amo”?

51. Qual a cor dos seus olhos?

55. Algo que te deixa triste.

57. Você é orgulhoso(a)?

58. É ciumento(a)?

60. Um defeito?

61. Uma qualidade?

62. O que te chama atenção fisicamente em uma pessoa do sexo oposto?

69. Qual a coisa mais legal que você já fez?

70. Qual foi o melhor dia da sua vida?

81. O que te atrai?

82. Qual seu pornô favorito?

85. Quantos followers?

86. Qual seu programa de TV favorito?

89. Qual foi a coisa mais perigosa que você já fez?

90. A coisa que te deixa com mais vergonha?

94. Acredita em “para sempre”?

95. O que vem em primeiro lugar pra você?

96. Qual sua banda favorita do momento?

98. Qual o filme que você mais assistiu na vida?

107. O que você faz quando tem insônia?

108. Quem teve a influência mais positiva sobre você?

112. Uma coisa que você faz que acha que poucas pessoas fazem ?

113. É mais fácil perdoar ou ser perdoado?

4- Sim

5- Ana

6- hambúrguer, arroz de pato, lasanha, pizza

11- Sim

12- Sim

14- 1,57

19- Não

22- Não

25- Sim

26- João

27- Lesley Pearse

29- sim eles lá e eu cá

31- mais ou menos mais para menos

32- Morad

33- Não

34- Não

36- por uns segundos mas o bom censo tem prevalecido

37- Sim

38- Não

39- Um com sol e praias

44- é muito raro deixar algo para amanhã

45- Pamela Reif

48- Ginásio

49- aprecio o meu tempo sozinha

50- João

51- castanho

55- ingratidão

57- Não

58- q.b.

60 e 61- acho que depende muito dos gostos

62- Cara

69- todas as conquistas pelo meu empenho

70- a maioria dos dias

81- simplicidade

82- não sei

85- 800

86- filmes

89 e 90- não sei

94- Sim

95- família

96- não tenho

98- Monstros e companhia, the notebook, o amor não tira férias

107- Tumblr

108- pais

112- não faço ideia

113- ser

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Olá, não consegue arranjar os últimos livros da lesley Pearse. Gostava muito! Obrigado

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“Sorry it's only a van” Charley waved towards a small blue van with “JACK SPOT GARAGE” stencilled on the side.

“I wanted to come in a Rolls Royce but, strangely enough, none of my pals have got one”

Molly laughed. She wouldn't have minded if he'd turned up in a horse and cart.

- “Without A Trace” by Lesley Pearse

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43. The Woman in the Wood, by Lesley Pearse

Owned?: No, library Page count: 387 My summary: Maisy and Duncan are twins, living in London in the 1960s. Their mother is distant, their father seems emotionless, and after an outburst one night they are shipped off to live with their grandmother in the country. The twins blossom in their new lives, finding new friends. Duncan even strikes up an unlikely relationship with Grace, an odd woman who lives in the woods. But when Duncan goes missing, can Maisy piece together exactly what happened?  My rating: 1/5 My commentary:

You know, once in a while you decide to branch out into a type of novel that you don’t usually read, and it totally blows up in your face. Today, that type was what I would (non-derisively!) refer to as middle-aged-woman fiction from Lesley Pearce, who according to the inside cover seems to exclusively write novels about white women staring pensively into the middle distance. There is nothing, I hasten to add, inherently wrong with this sort of book, if it’s your thing. It just really didn’t grab me, for a series of reasons.

(Warning for mentions of rape, molestation, discrimination against the mentally ill, and torture under the cut.)

My biggest gripe with this novel is what I’m going to call its bizarrely beige prose. Beige prose, if you didn’t know, is the opposite of flowery and eloquent purple prose - laconic, to-the-point, undescriptive. It honestly read to me like the first draft of a novel? All of the dialogue was characters bluntly stating how they feel about the things that are happening, or recapping things that have happened. Which was strange to me because of the heavy subject matter of the novel - spoiler alert, Duncan was in fact kidnapped and tortured/molested by a family friend, and the reason that Grace is the way she is stems from her being molested by her uncle as a child and then incarcerated in a mental facility. But all of this is told to us in this unsentimental, unevocative, matter-of-fact way that just felt completely at odds with the actual events? I had to skip back a few pages sometimes just to check I hadn’t missed anything. It was kind of surreal.

Characters were one-note, character development obvious and very on the nose. There was no room for subtext or implication here, everything was spelled out on the page, usually by the characters. Like, Maisy’s father is unemotional both because of things he saw working in Europe in WW2 and because his mother raised him essentially without love. I know this not because of anything he does, but because the characters keep saying it every few pages. Or later, when Duncan’s in hospital, he asked if the things that happened to him made him gay and if that was bad. His father tells him no and no in a manner similar to a Very Special Episode of a 90s cartoon, I swear I could see him looking out at the audience as he told Duncan that being gay wasn’t bad, in fact he’s known a lot of gay people that were perfectly good people. I’m usually ready to give a little leeway to the ‘show don’t tell’ idea - sometimes in prose you have to tell things to move the plot along - but this was just too much.

Conflict, too, seems somewhat neutered. At the end of the first act, Maisy decides to go and get a job, against her grandmother’s wishes. So Maisy goes to her grandmother and essentially says ‘nah I’m doing it’ and that’s it. Conflict resolved. And I’m just sitting here like...ok, so what? Why do I care?

I really don’t mean to be down on this author or even this work, really. It was...fine, I guess. But I’m probably not going to be dipping into Pearse’s backcatalogue any time soon, I’ll tell you that much.

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Review: Dead to Me

Review: Dead to Me

Dead to Me by Lesley Pearse; published 2016 by Michael Joseph Dead to Me tells the story of two young friends, Verity and Ruby, whose friendship survives bad personal choices, the emotional and physical scars of family members, and the trauma of World War II. The two meet as children on the streets of London. Verity’s early years are spent in a posh, wealthy house until her abusive father’s…

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Suspects by Lesley Pearse

Suspects by Lesley Pearse

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Michael Joseph (24 Jun. 2021)Language ‏ : ‎ EnglishHardcover ‏ : ‎ 384 pagesISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0241426626ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0241426623 Synopsis On the day Nina and Conrad Best move into their new home in picture-perfect Willow Close, a body is discovered. Hurrying inside with their belongings, they see horrified neighbours gather around the police cordon – one of the residents has been…

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“Dead to me” by Lesley pearse. I’m in a reading slump, usually read fantasy or crime but think my brain needs a rest from wondering who dunnit or worrying about trollocs.

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Why everything seems right when you read?

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You’ll Never See Me Again – Lesley Pearse The wind and heavy rain coming right off the sea rattled the cottage windows and pounded on the glass.

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The latest book club read was picked by Lucy - Belle by Lesley Pearse - part of a trilogy, but I have only read the first one so far. 

I would give this book a 4/5 - I liked it more than I thought it would, and I thought the characters were well written which was important. I really liked the different journeys the story takes you on, and I could really picture it too which was cool. I guess the only thing that lost points for me was it felt quite long, and maybe some bits could have been shaved... Though I don’t know which to be fair to maybe I’m just being harsh!

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So she was doing what she always did when she couldn't see a way forward - nothing.

Lesley Pearse, Father Unknown

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