Lesley Pearse

When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn’t be more different.

Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime....

When their father tragically kills their mother, Dulcie and her sister are sent to an orphanage. Told that a 'better life' awaits them in another country, they are shipped off to Australia....

Baby Hope, the unfortunate proof of Lady Harvey's adultery, is smuggled out of a privileged aristocratic household to a nearby village....

Orphan Georgia James suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her....

Eve should never have married Don Hathaway. Yes, he gave her two beautiful children - Olly and Tabitha - but he is a bully. Worse than that, he hurts her. But, after one drunken rage too many, she has the courage to leave him....

Are Belle's courage and spirit strong enough to help her escape? And what will await her at the end of the long, dangerous journey home? Find out....

Without a mother, Rosie is at the mercy of her father and thuggish brothers. Then one day a friend comes to the farm in the form of cockney housekeeper Heather Farley....

Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed forever when both her parents are killed in a fire. She is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school....

Liverpool, 1893, and tragedy sends Beth Bolton on a journey far from home....

Two girls meet in London at the end of the war when, seduced and abandoned by two American airmen, they pool their wits and resources and set off to make a living on the stage....

In 1786 a fisherman's daughter from Cornwall called Mary Broad was sentenced to be hanged for theft. But her sentence was commuted, and she was transported to Australia, one of the first convicts to arrive there....

London, 1939: Eighteen-year-old Mari is defiant, strong-willed and selfish....

When Ruby and Verity met as girls, they came from different worlds. Verity was privately educated, living in a beautiful Hampstead home, while Ruby was being raised in extreme poverty....

Twelve-year-old Adele is placed in a bleak, cruel children's home after a family tragedy drives her mother to madness....

Following her heart, Fifi moves with Dan to London, where they rent a seedy flat in Dale Street, Kennington....

After the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice Kent is approached by a man named Angus Tweedy. He claims to be her father and tells her that he served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously....

Daisy was adopted. But when her mother dies, she finds her secure existence thrown into turmoil by the discovery of a scrapbook. Inside it is information about her real mother....

Fifteen-year-old Maisy Mitcham and her twin brother, Duncan, lose their mother to an insane asylum one night in 1960. The twins are sent to their grandmother's country house....

Twenty-three-year-old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea....