Belle (Belle, 1)

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Belle Reilly finally has the life she's dreamed of thanks to a devoted husband in Jimmy and the hat shop she's wanted to own since she was a child. But as the storm clouds of World War One begin to gather, Belle's already turbulent life is to change in ways she never imagined possible. Mariette's parents, Belle and Etienne send her to London where she can be less bored, as Mariette has a lot of time on her hands and she had got involved with someone who took advantage of her flirty nature. Her father Etienne has the love for the sea and boats which Mari adores her father and is following in her father's foot steps with loving the sea and boats.

The year is 1914, the eve of World War 1 and at last Belle is happy, married to Jimmy and running her own hat shop. Belle has had a colourful life, although only still in her early twenties, she has seen and done things that many women of her era will never dream of. Life has not been easy, she has suffered abuse and hardship, been rejected by her own Mother and although she has travelled across the world, her journey was not a happy one. Voltaria ela a Nova Zelândia bem sucedida e triunfante? Esta foi uma promessa que fez quando partiu do país. Conseguiria concretizá-la? But she finds out about that and death too when one of the girls is murdered and she is witness to it. Belle is taken from her home and sold into prostitution in Paris by the killer. Now her entire world is not her own and when she is to go to New Orleans halfway across the planet, she is going to blossom from a young girl into a young woman that is more in control of her fate than ever.Survivor is another great book by Lesley Pearse. Over all to date Lesley Pearse's has had published a staggering 22 novels including Survivor..with Lesley's brilliant imagination she gives us readers such great enjoyment reading any novel she writes. For any reader out there who has not read a book by Lesley Pearse

In London Mariette throws herself into her new life of glamour and parties, she adores earning her own money and having some independence. Belle's mother, Annie, mentioned that young girls forced into prostitution rarely, if ever get over the mental and emotional trauma. However, Belle doesn't seem to have changed one whit. She's pretty flat and static as a character.Minden egyes sorát élveztem. Letehetetlen, érzelmekkel teli, fordulatos, izgalmas és szívszorító történet egy gyönyörű lányról, akinek helyén van az esze és a szíve is. Mélyen megrendített Belle sorsa és az amilyen gyorsan felnőtté vált, valamint az is, hogy az általa átéltek ellenére milyen naiv tudott lenni bizonyos helyzetekben. Nagyon szívbemarkoló volt, ahogy a Jimmy-Noah-Philipphe-Etienne-Garth férfikar mindent megtett a lány felkutatásáért és nagyon a szívembe zárta magát Lisette és Gabrielle karaktere is. Akivel nem tudtam mit kezdeni, az Annie volt, az ő döntéseivel a kötet végéig nehezen tudtam azonosulni, annak viszont örülök, hogy a végére árnyaltabb vált róla a kép és valamennyire feloldozást is nyert. Akit viszont nem szívleltem valamiért, az Mog volt. Már a neve is idegesített, meg az állandó teafőzése krízishelyzetben, de igazából épp a túlzott irgalmas szamaritánus szerepkör tette számomra unszimpatikussá. Igenis tehetett a Belle és Annie közötti viszony kialakulásáról, emiatt sem szerettem. Mariette Carrera is just 18 years old, she's wilful. Like her Mother when she was young and a bit of Bella's Mom thrown in who abandoned Bella and left with a servant while her Mother 'entertained' men.

I read Lesley’s book The Promise last year and having really liked that, I was very much looking forward to reading Survivor. Mas passada esta dificuldade inicial e tendo-me abstraído um pouco da idade da personagem, achei a história absolutamente envolvente. De tal modo que li umas 300 páginas dum fôlego só! Mariette envolve-se na 2ª GM. Perde os únicos apoios que tinha em Inglaterra - os tios e a prima. Mas é num dos bairros mais pobres de Londres que encontra a verdadeira amizade em mulheres simples e humildes.In France, Belle not only risks her life, but her happiness after a chance encounter with an old friend Etienne. Belle. Was. Annoying. It didn't make sense reading about her supposed uber naivity, then her being super introspective (as though she'd been through years of counseling), then her claims of being able to figure people because how observant she was, and then continually dumbly trusting people who most of the time turned out to be awful. What a ding dong. Lesley Pearse really is a consummate story teller, with a beautiful ease of style, and with every twist and turn of this wonderful book sweeping you along with it. There’s no problem reading this one as a stand-alone – Mariette doesn’t know her mother’s story either - but there were tantalising glimpses that made me really want to catch up with what I’ve missed. I’m so sorry for neglecting you Lesley – I’d really forgotten how superb your books could be, but what a wonderful time I’m going to have catching up. in Russell, a small town in New Zealand and Mariette, daughter of Belle and Etienne is strong-willed, a little bit defiant and bored. There is no doubt that if she remains at home for much longer she is going to find herself in all kinds of trouble. The neighbours are already talking about her and her parents decide that London is the best place for their wilful daughter. Mariette sets out on the long journey to Europe, she's going to stay with her parent's friends Noah and Lisette and she can't wait to get away from the isolated town of Russell. Mariette's adventures start before her feet touch English soil - she's a beautiful young woman travelling alone and it is not long before she catches the eye of the Errol Flynn lookalike steward on board. Mariette has been badly hurt in love before and this time she is determined that she will have the upper hand, sadly though it appears that all men really are only after one thing.

What a wonderful love story of Belle and Etienne's life. The final book of their offspring's lives from youth through to leaving their home of New Zealand. Their daughter Mariette went to England in the hope of finding herself and growing up. And their boy's drafted at age off to fight in the war. Aunt Mog is fabulously very cleaver at dressmaking which Mari inherits dressmaking skills from her aunt. Pearse enjoys introducing her readers to characters that they will connect with and care about. While other books in the genre she writes in rely on formulas to get from the beginning to the end, she doesn’t use any formula to write her novels. The genres that they are set in also vary from genres that aren’t totally defined, from crime to historical adventure or engaging books like Trust Me, which was based on the real events of child migrants from England that were being sent over to Australia after the war.It must be ten years since I last read a book by Lesley Pearse. I can remember devouring her early books, hot off the press, and I’m not entirely sure why I left her behind. I think it had a lot to do with falling out with large, heavy books – heavy in the handling sense, rather than content – which is very shallow of me. Friends have repeatedly told me how good she is – and I know my mum loves her – so I took the opportunity to read her forthcoming book, Survivor, when it was offered on netgalley (in the Kindle age, no book is too large!). I just can’t believe I neglected her books for so long – this was quite wonderful.