PRE-ORDER THE SPELLBINDING MEMOIR NOWOne of the world-s bestselling storytellers, Lesley Pearse writes brilliantly about survivors. Why? Because she is one herself . . . Born during the Second World War, Lesley-s innocence came to an abrupt end when a neighbour found her, aged 3, coatless in the snow. The mother she-d been unable to wake had been dead for days. Sent to an orphanage, Lesley soon learned adults couldn-t always be trusted. As a teenager in the swinging sixties, she took herself to London. Here, the second great tragedy of her life occurred. Falling pregnant, she was sent to a mother and baby home, and watched helplessly as her newborn was taken from her. But like so many of her generation, Lesley had to carry on. She was, after all, a true survivor. Marriage and children followed - and all the while she nurtured a dream: to be a writer. Yet it wasn-t until at the age of 48 that her stories - of women struggling in a difficult world - found a publisher, and the bestseller
