Informationen zum Autor International bestselling author Lesley Pearse has lived a life as rich with incidents, setbacks and joys as any found in her novels. After her mother died, Lesley spent three years in an orphanage before she was taken home when her father remarried. Resourceful, determined and willing to have a go at almost anything Lesley left home at sixteen. By the mid Sixties she was living in London, sharing flats, partying hard and married a trumpet player in a Jazz rock band. She has also worked as a nanny, a Playboy bunny and designed and made clothes to sell to boutiques. It was only after having three daughters that Lesley began to write. The hardships, traumas, close friends and lovers from those early years were inspiration for her beloved novels. She published her first book at 49 and has not looked back since. Lesley is still a party girl. Klappentext Betty is running for her life . . . The gripping Sunday Times bestseller about one woman doing whatever it takes to survive 'You are in the story within minutes of opening the book . . . A brilliant story full of twists and turns' 5***** Reader Review 'Compelling, rich in detail and vividly told. Storytelling at its best' Daily Express 'A gripping read. It kept me hooked from the start' 5***** Reader Review FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR LESLEY PEARSE _________ When her husband returns from the war broken and haunted, Betty knows her marriage is doomed. So she escapes. On the run and armed with a new identity, Betty becomes penniless and alone, quickly realising that starting again is much harder than she thought. And she never imagined it could end in murder . . . But sometimes you have to keep running if you want to survive. _________ 'A pacy page-turner' Woman & Home 'Don't miss this suspenseful and emotional read' My Weekly Praise for Lesley Pearse: 'Gripping and suspenseful' Daily Express 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' Sunday Express 'Gripping and full of twists' My Weekly Zusammenfassung Betty is running for her life . . . The gripping Sunday Times bestseller about one woman doing whatever it takes to survive 'You are in the story within minutes of opening the book . . . A brilliant story full of twists and turns' 5***** Reader Review 'Compelling, rich in detail and vividly told. Storytelling at its best' Daily Express 'A gripping read. It kept me hooked from the start' 5***** Reader Review FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR LESLEY PEARSE _________ When her husband returns from the war broken and haunted, Betty knows her marriage is doomed. So she escapes. On the run and armed with a new identity, Betty becomes penniless and alone, quickly realising that starting again is much harder than she thought. And she never imagined it could end in murder . . . But sometimes you have to keep running if you want to survive. _________ 'A pacy page-turner' Woman & Home 'Don't miss this suspenseful and emotional read' My Weekly Praise for Lesley Pearse: 'Gripping and suspenseful' Daily Express 'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' Sunday Express 'Gripping and full of twists' My Weekly ...

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International bestselling author Lesley Pearse has lived a life as rich with incidents, setbacks and joys as any found in her novels. After her mother died, Lesley spent three years in an orphanage before she was taken home when her father remarried.

Resourceful, determined and willing to have a go at almost anything Lesley left home at sixteen. By the mid Sixties she was living in London, sharing flats, partying hard and married a trumpet player in a Jazz rock band. She has also worked as a nanny, a Playboy bunny and designed and made clothes to sell to boutiques.

It was only after having three daughters that Lesley began to write. The hardships, traumas, close friends and lovers from those early years were inspiration for her beloved novels. She published her first book at 49 and has not looked back since.

Lesley is still a party girl.

Klappentext

Betty is running for her life . . . The gripping Sunday Times bestseller about one woman doing whatever it takes to survive

'You are in the story within minutes of opening the book . . . A brilliant story full of twists and turns' 5***** Reader Review
'Compelling, rich in detail and vividly told. Storytelling at its best' Daily Express
'A gripping read. It kept me hooked from the start' 5***** Reader Review

FROM THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR LESLEY PEARSE

When her husband returns from the war broken and haunted, Betty knows her marriage is doomed.

So she escapes.

On the run and armed with a new identity, Betty becomes penniless and alone, quickly realising that starting again is much harder than she thought.

And she never imagined it could end in murder . . .
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But sometimes you have to keep running if you want to survive.*

'A pacy page-turner' Woman & Home

'Don't miss this suspenseful and emotional read' My Weekly

Praise for Lesley Pearse:

'Gripping and suspenseful' Daily Express

'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' Sunday Express

'Gripping and full of twists' My Weekly