The Long and Winding Road

Lesley Pearse didn't publish her first novel until she was 48. Now she has sold over ten million books around the world and is a constant presence on the bestseller chart.

A writer of heart-stopping stories, Lesley's books are filled with heroines struggling to make it in a difficult world.

Yet this description could apply to Lesley herself. In this, her first-ever autobiography, she tells of growing up in an orphanage after her mother's death, her racy twenties in London during the swinging sixties, and working as a bunny girl and dressmaker.

Packed full of Lesley's signature warmth, wit, and poignancy, this is the story of a woman and a writer fighting against the odds to achieve her dreams