Sometimes in life it's best to 'Never Look Back' (Never Look Back - Lesley Pearse)

Member Name: katykicker

Product:	Never Look Back - Lesley Pearse
Date:	17/05/09 (29 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Fantastic read, interesting characters, lots of twists & turns.

Disadvantages: Difficult to put down at times!

'Never Look Back' follows the life of Matilda Jennings from a young child right through to the latter years of her life. Throughout the book she suffers many trials and tribulations and her life changes considerably starting off in the slums of London to living a slightly more reserved life in San Francisco. There are lots of different stages to her life and she begins life as a flower girl barely making enough to feed herself, her poor father and her two brothers who are little rouges, she then saves the life of a girl and finds herself offered a job working as household help with a clergyman and his wife and this gives her an opportunity to break away from the slums and begin to change her life. She accepts the job offer and this begins a new chapter in her life where she begins to learn about a lot of things and learns how to cook, clean & care for people in a far better way than she previously knew living in a filthy slum. Throughout life she follows the clergyman and his family and there begins a serious of events which will forever mould her life and set her on a different path such as travelling to New York, through the Wild West & ultimately on to San Francisco where she becomes a very successful businessman and along the way in her travels she meets a man, whom she falls in love with. Will everything work out for Matilda or is she just best sticking to her Father's advice of never looking back?

I found this book to be a fantastic read and it is one that I return to at least once a year or so. I recently cleared out a lot of books for the charity shop but this, along with other Lesley Pearse books, will always have a place on my bookshelf. There are lots of twist & turns to this story that will always have me gripped. While I may know the story pretty much by heart, I always find something that I never noticed before. Lesley Pearse is a fantastic author and her characters always have me interested throughout, there is no point within this book that makes me want to skip a few pages and I struggle to find a point where I am happy to put it down and fall asleep, or get out of the bath!

Never Look Back was released by Penguin in and the paperback edition is currently available on Amazon for £5.99 with free delivery.

I would thoroughly recommend this book, it is available in hardback & paperback form and the text is a nice manageable size to read without being too small. I will no doubt read this again in a year or two and I am rating this book 5/5.

Summary: This is a fantastic book which I found to be a very gripping read.