A Lesser Evil - Couverture rigide

Pearse, Lesley

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0718147057 ISBN 13 : 9780718147051

Editeur : Michael Joseph, 2005

Synopsis

'You will live to regret this!' is Clara Brown's opinion when her headstrong daughter Fifi secretly marries Dan Reynolds, a handsome but itinerant bricklayer.

Dan and Fifi move to London and a seedy flat in Dale Street, Kennington, and despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds London and the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating. Insatiably inquisitive, Fifi is fascinated by her new neighbours and wants to know what goes on behind all those shabby front doors.

Why is Yvette, the French dressmaker, such a hermit? Why doesn't widower Frank join his daughter and grandchildren in Australia? And why doesn't the formidable and well-bred Miss Diamond move somewhere smarter?

But most of all she is ghoulishly fascinated by the Muckles who live opposite in terrible squalor. She listens to their violent quarrels, watches their ill-treated and wretchedly unhappy children, and is appalled by all she sees.

When Fifi tries to help the Muckles' youngest child, who has been physically abused by her father, Fifi unwittingly unleashes a chain of events which will not only bring heart ache to her and Dan, but terrible danger to all the inhabitants of Dale Street...

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Lesley Pearse's novels have sold over 10 million copies worldwide and include, most recently, The Woman in the Wood, Dead to Me, Without a Trace, Survivor, Forgive Me and The Promise. Lesley lives in Devon and has three daughters and four grandchildren.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Michael Joseph
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0718147057
• ISBN 13: 9780718147051
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 528
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible