The House Across The Street by Lesley Pearse is published on 6th September in hardback by Michael Joseph priced £20.00. This year is Lesley’s 25th anniversary year in publishing.
The 10-million-copy, number 1 bestselling author is back with another beautifully-written, compelling and page-turning epic.
Twenty-three year old Katy Speed is fascinated by the house across the street. The woman who lives there, Gloria, is the most glamorous neighbour on the avenue, owning a fashionable dress shop in Bexhill-on-Sea. But who is the woman who arrives in the black car most Saturdays while Gloria is at work? Sometimes she brings women to the house, other times they have children.
Hilda, Katy's mother, disapproves of Gloria. She wonders if these mysterious visitors have just been released from prison. Is Gloria secretly bringing criminals, or worse, into the heart of the community?
Then one night, the house burns down. In the wreckage, the bodies of Gloria and her daughter are found. Katy is sure the unexplained visitors must be responsible until her father is arrested and charged with murder. Have the police arrested the correct person? Are the rest of the street safe? Can Katy find the truth before it's too late?
'Heart-warming and evocative, a real delight to read' Sun
'A narrative that gallops along, this is quintessential Pearse that will delight her army of readers' Daily Mail
'Glorious, heartwarming' Woman & Home
'Evocative, compelling, told from the heart' Sunday Express
'Deservedly one of the world's favourite story tellers . . . You simply have to keep turning the pages to find out what happens next.' MyWeekly
'Gripping.' Hello
'Evocative, multi-faceted and sometimes disturbing, a story that grips from first page to last.' Lancashire Post



Congratulations to Lesley Pearse.
Her 25th year in publishing.
I remember reading her very first book. She had a sign in at one of the libraries near me.
Since then I have followed and been an avid reader of her releases.
Her style is just the same but in this book there is mystery, abduction, abuse (but not in detail)
Katy lives with her parents. Her best friend and her decide LONDON and getting a job there might be a good move. Her friends mum is supportive but Katy’s isn’t. In fact Katy’s mum annoys her big time. Her mums moods are getting beyond acceptable so why does her father put up with it?
The house across the street is questionable to Katy. What happens there with women coming and going?
When her father is arrested for a fire that takes place in the house across the road killing people Katy knows her dad isn’t capable of such an act.
So she decides to fight his corner, after all the Police think they’ve caught their man.
Then Katy goes missing.
What follows this is intense, edge of your seat moments and later on discoveries that I’d not guess in a zillion years.
The body of this story is deep, you can really get your teeth into it.
I think that these last two gritty stories she’s produced are ace.
My thanks to the publishers for sending me a proof copy. One I will treasure for years to come.


Lesley Pearse is one of the UK's best-loved novelists with fans across the globe and sales of over 2 million copies of her books to date. A true storyteller and a master of gripping storylines that keep the reader hooked from beginning to end, Pearse introduces you to characters that it is impossible not to care about or forget. There is no formula to her books or easily defined genre. Whether crime as in 'Till We Meet Again', historical adventure like 'Never Look Back', or the passionately emotive 'Trust Me', based on the true-life scandal of British child migrants sent to Australia in the post war period, she engages the reader completely.
Truth is often stranger than fiction and Lesley's life has been as packed with drama as her books. She was three when her mother died under tragic circumstances. Her father was away at sea and it was only when a neighbour saw Lesley and her brother playing outside without coats on that suspicion was aroused - their mother had been dead for some time. With her father in the Royal Marines, Lesley and her older brother spent three years in grim orphanages before her father remarried - a veritable dragon of an ex army nurse - and Lesley and her older brother were brought home again, to be joined by two other children who were later adopted by her father and stepmother, and a continuing stream of foster children. The impact of constant change and uncertainty in Lesley's early years is reflected in one of the recurring themes in her books: what happens to those who are emotionally damaged as children. It was an extraordinary childhood and in all her books, Lesley has skilfully married the pain and unhappiness of her early experiences with a unique gift for storytelling.
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