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Host a 1950s Coronation Party with Lesley Pearse's 'Without a Trace'

To celebrate the new book from bestselling author Lesley Pearse, set during the Queen’s coronation, her publisher Michael Joseph are offering 15 reading groups 1950s party packs.

Each participating group will receive a pack containing the following to throw your own party!

• 10 copies of Without a Trace
• Coronation Party Top Tips – how to host your own party, including how to decorate the room, lay the table and a suggested playlist.
• Bunting
• ‘Royal’ tea bags
• Tin of British Biscuits
• 20 x postcards to review the book and recommend to a friend, to be returned to The Reading Agency by 5 October.

About Without a Trace:

It’s Coronation Day, 1953 in the Somerset village of Sawbridge, and Molly Heywood’s life is turned upside down when her friend, Cassie, fails to turn up to the village Coronation Day party. Nothing can prepare Molly for the shocking sight she is about to behold: Cassie has been murdered, and her six year old daughter Petal has disappeared without a trace.

Determined to find the truth behind her friend’s death and the whereabouts of Cassie’s 6 year old daughter, Petal who has disappeared without a trace, Molly heads to London in search of Cassie’s past and is happy for the first time in her life but clues about Petal’s whereabouts are in short supply. Retracing Cassie’s past, Molly is led from the bombed out poverty of the East End to the rural beauty of Rye in Sussex. But will she discover the truth in time?

Lesley Pearse

Lesley Pearse was told as a child that she had too much imagination for her own good. When she grew up she worked her way through a number of jobs, including nanny, bunny girl, dressmaker and full-time mother before, at the age of forty-nine, she became a published writer. Since then Lesley has become an internationally bestselling author, with over seven million copies of her books sold worldwide. Lesley lives in Devon and has three daughters and three grandchildren.

To enter to win a party pack for your group, please log in and complete the survey below by 5 August.

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