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Never Look Back

Never Look Back

Summary

Take a journey across America with a poor Victorian flower girl in her epic journey to a better life, from the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse

As voted by readers as their favourite Lesley Pearse novel

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One good deed takes her into another world . . .


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.

She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York. Traveling across the vast plains to the Wild West, she finds herself in San Francisco, a city in the grip of the gold rush.

Streetwise and strong-willed, Matilda forges a new life for herself and Tabitha among pioneers like Captain James Russell - a man to whom she is deeply attracted.

Yet a civil war will soon rip apart this new nation . . .

Can Matilda and those she loves brave separation and carry on, never looking back?

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'With characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best'
Daily Mail

'Heart-warming and evocative . . . a real delight to read'
Sun

'Lose yourself in this epic saga'
Bella

'Utterly riveting, brilliant'
Closer

'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry'
Woman's Weekly

Reviews

  • The courageous tale of a poor Victorian flower girl, who makes an epic journey from London across a vast and wild America . . .

    As voted by readers as their favourite Lesley Pearse novel, Never Look Back is by the international NO.1 BESTSELLING author.
    from the publisher's description

About the author

Lesley Pearse

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, and designed and made clothes to sell to boutiques.

It was only after having 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.
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