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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Lesley Pearse
Lesley Pearse é autora de várias obras já traduzida para mais de trinta línguas, tendo vendido cerca de três milhões de exemplares. A própria vida da escritora é uma grande fonte de material para os seus romances, quer esteja a escrever sobre a dor do primeiro amor, crianças indesejadas e maltratadas, adoção, rejeição, pobreza ou vingança, uma vez que Lesley conheceu tudo isto em sua vida pessoal. Com o apoio da editora Penguin, criou o Women of Courage Award para distinguir mulheres comuns, dotadas de uma coragem extraordinária.
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