When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her... more
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Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating. Insatiably inquisitive Fifi is f...
1960's in London Review ofA Lesser Evil - Lesley Pearseby
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Advantages: Page turner, couldn't put it down Disadvantages: When it ended!
I've read a few of Lesley Pearce's books, and this is by far the best one of the lot.
Set in the 1960's it features the goings on in a street in Kennington, London. The two main characters are Fifi Brown and Dan Reynolds, who meet by chance in a cafe in Bristol and end up getting married in a whirl wind romance much to the dis-taste of Fifi's mother. Wanting to give Fifi a good home, Dan moves them to London to find work and they move into a flat ... ...the street meet Yvette Dupre a seamstress who makes dresses, curtains etc. from the front room of her house and who later on in the book tells Fifi all about her childhood and a few dark secrets.
Further up the street we meet Stan the Pole, a Polish man who came to London as a refugee in 1947.
Then we come to Alfie and Molly Muckle who live at No. 11 across the street from Fifi. They are a nasty family who terrorise the street and their house is ...
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Advantages: Hard to put down and great value for money. Disadvantages: You don't want it to end!
...back to the 1960's, with a tale about two young people who fall in love (Fifi and Dan). There is tension in the family as they think that Dan is no good. The couple get married in secret and go to London where Dan can find work. They move into a street called Dale Street, which is a far cry from the world that Fifi is familiar with. Deciding to make the best of it, Fifi sets about trying to work out who her neighbours are, and spends many hours watching ... ...a widower with a secret he's being blackmailed with; Nora, a woman who generally keeps herself to herself, but develops a soft spot for the newly married couple. She is not as she appears though. There is also Yvette, a dress maker from France, who has a very sad background and dark secret. She lives next door to the Muckle famly, who are dirty, noisy and dangerous. They neglect their children, have drunken fights and are hated and feared by all ...
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When Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds 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.
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