Never Look Back

<p><b>Take a journey across America with a poor Victorian flower girl in her epic journey to a better life from the internationally bestselling author Lesley Pearse<br><i><br>As voted by readers as their favourite Lesley Pearse novel</i></b><br>___________<br><b><br>One good deed takes her into another world . . .</b><br><br>Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime.<br><br>She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York. Traveling across the vast plains to the Wild West she finds herself in San Francisco a city in the grip of the gold rush.<br><br>Streetwise and strong-willed Matilda forges a new life for herself and Tabitha among pioneers like Captain James Russell - a man to whom she is deeply attracted.<br><br>Yet a civil war will soon rip apart this new nation . . .<br><b><i><br>Can Matilda and those she loves brave separation and carry on never looking back?</i></b><br>___________<br><b><br>'With characters it is impossible not to care about . . . this is storytelling at its very best'</b> <i>Daily Mail</i><br><b><br>'Heart-warming and evocative . . . a real delight to read'</b> <i>Sun<br></i><b><br>'Lose yourself in this epic saga' </b><i>Bella</i><br><b><br>'Utterly riveting brilliant'</b> <i>Closer</i><b><br><br>'An emotional and moving epic you won't forget in a hurry' </b><i>Woman's Weekly</i></p>