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A Lesser Evil by Lesley Pearse is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Synopsis 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... Fiction,1960s
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Lesley Pearse
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780141900957
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (1,250 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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