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Description: ISBN 0141030488 / Author: Lesley Pearse / Genre: Fiction / 1995, Scotland - The prison of Cornton Vale. Laura Brannigan is in jail for ... more
Faith - Lesley Pearse ... murder. For two years she's been battling for justic - insisting that she didn't kill her best friend, Jackie. Yet with her spirits at their lowest ebb, she receives a letter that takes her back to a different time and memory of an old love ...Twenty years ago was a heady time for Laura: she'd escaped an abusive home and together with new best friend Jackie she'd made a fresh start. The pair had sworn to be sisters for ever. And Stuart had come into their lives - giving Laura a brilliant summer of love. So what went wrong in the intervening years? And why is Stuart writing to Laura now? Does he have faith in her innocence? And can he help free Laura from prison - and her past?

Newest Review: ... between the past and the present frequently, going as far back as the early 1960s when Laura was a young child and follows ... more

 ... her throughout her life and through all the adversities she has faced while growing up. The Characters Laura Brannigan is the focus of the novel, we learn about her deprived life as a child when she was left to care for her younger siblings while her father was in prison. She suffers abuse at the hands of her mother's new suitor and flees her family home at an early age. We learn about her unloving marriage, her jaunts into the pornographic world, her frequent encounters with drugs and the death of her small son....more

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Crowned Review Faith - Lesley Pearse: You'll Need Faith to Finish This! (1161 words)
by blonde_girl774 - written on 25.03.08 (Very useful, 142 readings)
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I was round at my friend's house a couple of weeks ago and noticed her bookshelf was practically about to break due to being overloaded with books. As such I took it upon myself to select a couple of books to borrow to entertain me during the evening, one of which was "Faith" by Lesley Pearce. The Author Lesley Pearce released her first novel back in 1993 and since then has consistently had a further fifteen novels published with "Faith" being her latest offering in January 2008. She's a British born writer who currently lives in the Bristol region and her books tend to focus on one lead female character who is facing various ...

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Premium Review Have a little faith (988 words)
by owensmum - written on 04.03.08 (Very useful, 61 readings)
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Faith is the latest book I have read by one of my favourite authors Lesley Pearse. Lesley Pearse started writing novels fairly late in life, her first book was published at the age of 49. She is a wonderful storyteller and this is her 16th novel. The authors books are usually based on a strong female character and a lot of her earlier books were titled with the said ladies name (eg Rosie, Charity, Charlie). Her usual tales are of a badly done to young girl who grows up to either take revenge on those who have wronged her or to become a major success despite all the odds. There are varieties on the theme and settings to the stories and no matter how many of her books I ...

 
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