{"product_id":"lesley-pearse-deception-hardback-novel-2026332354","title":"Lesley Pearse Deception Hardback Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE GRIPPING NEW NOVEL FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER LESLEY PEARSE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the person closest to you has led a life of deception?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the funeral of her mother, Sally, Alice Kent is approached by a man named Angus Tweedy. He claims to be her father and tells her that he served time in prison for marrying Sally bigamously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does he hope to gain by telling her this now, thirty years on? How can her adored dad Ralph not be her true father? And why did her mother betray her so badly?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe had accepted Sally's many faults, and her reluctance to ever speak of the past. But faced with this staggering deception, Alice knows she must uncover the whole truth about her mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhatever the cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Alice journeys into the past she discovers her mother may never have been the woman she claimed to be . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInternational bestselling author Lesley Pearse has lived a life as rich with incidents, setbacks and joys as any found in her novels. After her mother died, Lesley spent three years in an orphanage before she was taken home when her father remarried.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResourceful, determined and willing to have a go at almost anything Lesley left home at sixteen. By the mid Sixties she was living in London, sharing flats, partying hard and married a trumpet player in a Jazz rock band. She has also worked as a nanny, a Playboy bunny and designed and made clothes to sell to boutiques.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was only after having three daughters that Lesley began to write. The hardships, traumas, close friends and lovers from those early years were inspiration for her beloved novels. She published her first book at 49 and has not looked back since.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ASDA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48337480319214,"sku":"STO-ITEM-2026-332354","price":17.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/0125\/9183\/files\/9780241544938_T1.jpg?v=1784295932","url":"https:\/\/mcgrocer.com\/products\/lesley-pearse-deception-hardback-novel-2026332354","provider":"McGrocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}