Trust Me - Lesley Pearse

“Trust me!” she spat.”As soon as someone says, “Trust me”, you can be sure they’re going to let you down, or hurt you!” Dulcie Taylor and her little sister May have not had the best start in life. Following a family tragedy, the two young sisters are placed in the care of the Catholic Sisters of The Sacred Heart convent. Dulcie, a nervous and sombre child, is apprehensive, but she is assured by all the adults she knows that everything will be fine, just fine. But the Convent is a cold, dank and cheerless place, and the Nuns are unfeeling and spiteful towards the little ones who have had the misfortune to be ...  Read the complete review

I was passed this book by a work colleague a few years ago, but being to big to carry around (710 pages), I took until recently to get round to reading it and that I should have started reading it when I did turned out to be significant. You join the story of the main characters, May and Dulcie in 1947, they are two young children living in post war Britain and you are at first just involved in their day to day lives, a loving father and a mother who neglects them. I believed at this point of reading that the story was going to take me through their lives, growing up and how their futures panned out. I was right this is the story, but there are dramatic twists ...  Read the complete review

Trust Me is a book from bestselling author, Lesley Pearse, who has written such other books as 'Never Look Back', 'Father Unknown' & 'Remember Me' and is a fiction work. The story of the book follows Dulcie & May Taylor who are young sisters who find themselves in an orphanage following tragic events in which their mother is killed and their father is placed in to prison for a lengthy sentence. The orphanage has different consequences for Dulcie & May and in later life they find themselves in different parts of the country from each other to start with and this is brought on by the difference in age of the sisters and one of them departing the ...  Read the complete review

TRUST ME – yes, trust me, this is a novel you will not be able to put down, it is a very sad story, but what is even more sad is that although it is fictional, it is based on events which actually happened, not all that long ago either. The main character is Dulcie Taylor and we are introduced to her and her young sister May, when they are only young children just after the second world war. Her mother is a bit of a flighty piece and leaves the children alone while she goes out shopping for new clothes or works part time as a barmaid, she is also having an affair with the pub landlord. The children’s father idolises his two children and there are ...  Read the complete review