Charity

ISBN: 9780099421337
Author: Lesley Pearse
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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. From the Publisher AN UNPUTDOWNABLE TALE OF AN ORPHAN'S TRIUMPH OVER SUFFERING AND ADVERSITY, FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF TRUST ME. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From the Back Cover 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 the Author 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.

Pages: 688
Format: Paperback
Genre: Romance
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