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Charity

By: Lesley Pearse
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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 Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed forever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby, she soon realises just how alone she really is.

Determined to be reunited with her siblings and to make something of herself, Charity runs away to 1960s London and begins to forge a new life.

©1995 Lesley Pearse (P)2007 Isis Publishing Fiction Historical Fiction Scary

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There was nothing to dislike about this book, just an easy to follow story about a girl on the sixties.

just a great story

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Another great book by Lesley Pearse Thank You
I would highly recommend this book.
A book with lots of up’s & down’s.

What a great listen

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and I was hoping Daniel would turn up . It was excellent I needed a few loose end tied up.

I was hoping two characters would get caught

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A wonderful gripping story, as are all of Lesley Pearse's books, with that lovely warm feeling at the end.

Excellent story

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Another gripping book from Lesley Pearse, unfortunately the narrator slightly let it down for me. Very monotone.

Lesley Pearse at her best

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Loved this long and winding story so much ….would recommend this if you like stories with lots of twists and turns. Also amazing narration.

Fantastic

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If you could sum up Charity in three words, what would they be?

Gripping, moving, compelling

What was one of the most memorable moments of Charity?

I'll try not to say too much because I don't want to spoil the story.... 1 word - Daniel!
Heart wrenching!

What about Julia Franklin’s performance did you like?

She says some words in a peculiar way (words with a G in the middle in particular) and some of her accents are a little strange... which did put me off a little, BUT overall very good.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

"The children" and Daniel.

Any additional comments?

This is the 2nd book I have read for LP's and all I can say is I want to read more!
(The first book I read was A Lesser Evil and according to many reviews, it is not her best).
I enjoyed both immensly and look forward to reading more! I have used my last couple of credits to buy the ones here and recently bougt another whilst out shopping.
That reminds me - - I must check the Kindle store *shoots off to check*

Loved it!

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Loved this from Lesley Pearse. This story has absolutely everything thrown into it - romance, crime and family drama. The characters are well thought out and you can't help feeling for all of them individually. The romance side of things is very erotic compared to other Lesley Pearse books and some of it was a bit distasteful but perhaps that was because I had the audiobook version of this book. This book only lost a star from me because I found some of the scenes too graphic and were hard bits to read/listen to but overall another cracking read from Lesley Pearse.

4.5 Stars!

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It was a wonderful story all aspects of it well worth a listing……. No no no no no more to tell

Gripping from start to finish.

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As Charity’s hair is always described as blonde what a shame that the book cover didn’t echo this!

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