The Girl with the Suitcase

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The Girl with the Suitcase

By: Lesley Pearse

Narrated by: Candida Gubbins

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London, 1941

When Mary meets a glamorous stranger named Elizabeth she realises their lives couldn’t be more different. Elizbeth is beautiful and charming, about to set off on a dazzling adventure to Ireland where she’s inherited a grand house. Mary, shy and meek, has nothing to look forward to but the dreary life of a maid in Hampstead.

But when an air raid forces them to take shelter underground Mary’s 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’s money and tickets to Ireland inside.

This is Mary’s chance to escape the hardship of her life and start afresh.

Will she take it and what could go wrong?

20th Century

Crime Fiction

Historical

Historical Fiction

Mystery

Emotionally Gripping

Most relevant

I’ve read most of Lesley’s books and felt this one didn’t have that same emotional grip over me. I felt she played it safe. Usually within her stories there are multiple twists and turns but this I found predictable. I’m not sure about the narrator either. At one point she used the wrong name. But felt her emotion in points of sadness almost felt forced and too ‘acted’