Once you start it, you won't be able to switch it off!
How does it compare to similar audio books?
Excellent
How does it compare to audio works by the same author?
Excellent
Advantages:
Page turner, couldn't put it down
Disadvantages:
When it ended !
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
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 in Dale Street where all the neighbours know each other's business.
Downstairs to them lives Nora Diamond, who later on the book reveals how she came to live in the street. Also in the same block lives Frank Ubley, again later on the book we hear is story and how he came to live there.
Further up 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 filthy. The youngest child, Angela who is hauled from pillar to post. Later on in the book the story mainly focuses on Angela and the Muckle family and all the goings on in the house.
This was a brilliant book to read, a real page turner. When reading about Fifi and Dan's life in Dale Street you get a feel for 1960's London and what it was like to live there and what it was like to live in the 60's. We hear about President Kennedy's assination and learn about the fashions of the 60's as well. It was a great book and I'd recommend it for an easy read and a little cry.
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