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Friday 26 June 2026 at 6:30PMCentral Library
£5
Join us for an evening with Lesley Pearse, introducing her new novel The Girl with the Suitcase, a captivating historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
Lesley Pearse's novels have sold over three million copies in the UK alone. Her twelve most recent books, including Gypsy, Faith and Hope, have all been huge bestsellers and are published by Penguin.
📚 About the Book 📚
She took another woman’s place. Now she must live with the consequences...
London, 1941
When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn’t be more different. Elizbeth is beautiful and charming, about to set off on a dazzling adventure to Ireland where she’s inherited a grand house. Mary, shy and meek, has nothing to look forward to but the dreary life of a maid in Hampstead.
But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground Mary’s life is suddenly changed forever. After waking up in hospital, injured but alive, the nurse mistakes her for Elizabeth and hands over her suitcase with Elizabeth’s money and tickets to Ireland inside.
This is Mary’s chance to escape the hardship of her life and start afresh.
Will she take it and what could go wrong?
📚 About the Author 📚
International bestselling author Lesley Pearse has lived a life as rich with incidents, setbacks and joys as any found in her novels. By the mid-sixties she was living in London, sharing flats, partying hard and married to a trumpet player in a jazz-rock band. She has also worked as a nanny and a Playboy bunny, owned a gift shop and designed and made clothes to sell to boutiques. It was only after having one son and three daughters that Lesley began to write. She published her first book at forty-nine and has not looked back since. Lesley is still a party girl.
PRAISE FOR LESLEY PEARSE:
‘Storytelling at its very best’ Daily Mail
‘Gripping and suspenseful’ Daily Express
‘A twisting and intense read’ Woman's Own
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College Green, Bristol Central Library, BS1 5TL Bristol, United Kingdom, Bristol, United Kingdom
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