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Charity Lesley Pearse

Charity By Lesley Pearse

Charity by Lesley Pearse


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Summary

Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Working as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school, she falls in love with a 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.

Charity Summary

Charity by Lesley Pearse

When you're sixteen, pregnant and alone, sixties London is anything but swinging...Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever 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 London and begins to forge a new life.

About Lesley Pearse

Lesley Pearse was born in Rochester, Kent, but has lived in the West County for the last thirty two years. She has three daughters and a grandson. She is the author of fifteen novels and now writes full-time.

Additional information

GOR001125736
9780099421337
009942133X
Charity by Lesley Pearse
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Cornerstone
2001-02-02
688
N/A
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