{"id":291372,"date":"2025-06-13T19:42:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/the-girl-with-the-suitcase-by-lesley-pearse\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T19:42:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T19:42:49","slug":"the-girl-with-the-suitcase-by-lesley-pearse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=291372","title":{"rendered":"The Girl With The Suitcase by Lesley Pearse"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n\"The<\/a>The Girl with the Suitcase: A captivating historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author<\/a> by Lesley Pearse<\/a>
\nMy rating: 4 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n

Time taken to read – 1 day<\/p>\n

Pages – 391<\/p>\n

Publisher – Michael Joseph<\/p>\n

Source – ARC<\/p>\n

Blurb from Goodreads <\/p>\n

The enthralling new novel from the 10-million-copy, No. 1 bestselling author is available to PRE-ORDER now!<\/p>\n

London, 1941<\/p>\n

When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn\u2019t be more different. Elizbeth is beautiful and charming, about to set off on a dazzling adventure to Ireland where she\u2019s inherited a grand house. Mary, shy and meek, has nothing to look forward to but the dreary life of a maid in Hampstead.<\/p>\n

But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground Mary\u2019s life is suddenly changed forever. After waking up in hospital, injured but alive, the nurse mistakes her for Elizabeth and hands over her suitcase with Elizabeth\u2019s money and tickets to Ireland inside.<\/p>\n

This is Mary\u2019s chance to escape the hardship of her life and start afresh.<\/p>\n

Will she take it and what could go wrong?<\/p>\n

My Review <\/p>\n

Mary has known poverty and cruelty her whole life, it is wartime and she is desperate to escape her job as housekeeper, cleaner and general dogsbody. When she meets the beautiful Elizabeth who offers her a chance at a new life, she has just came into a fabulous house in Ireland, inheritance from an estranged aunt. A bomb hits, the girls are in an underground shelter when everything goes dark. Mary wakes injured but alive, she is misidentified and finally has a chance to live, really live but can she do it?<\/p>\n

Aw Mary, what a poor soul and hard going “upbringing” she had. We find out more about Mary and why she is the way she is by going from present to past. As always Pearse’s books feature some of the darker side of humanity, abuse, SA, child endangerment, substance abuse, stolen identity. You get reeled in because you are rooting for Mary aka Beth but you do question some of her decisions and behaviours. I think that is one of her gifts, she gives you characters who aren’t wholly whiter than white (Mary), and some downright horror bags the “stepfather”. <\/p>\n

When Mary goes to Ireland we meet a whole cast of people, sweet, nosey, hearing about the aunt, ooft she was a character in herself. We see how world war 2 affected different parts of the world, meat rationing, families, love, loss. It is a busy book as is Pearse’s way but she does it so well the story flows and envelopes you. Lots of characters\/happenings, some time and place jumps but all done effortlessly. <\/p>\n

Even when I have a reading block I can still inhale one of her books, 4.5\/5 from us, I need to check her backlist and see what I have missed (we have read loads but she has published loads) and catch up on any missed. She is a fab writer, pulls you emotively and allows you to escape your own life and merge into a world full of love, loss, sadness, friendship, family, she ticks the boxes.\n<\/p>\n

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