Near fine condition.Michael Joseph,2005.First edition-first printing.Red hardback(gilt lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of creases and nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in near fine condition.Nice and clean pages with a small ink mark on the outer edges,light shelf wear on the Dj cover.Nice and clean book.Price un-clipped.528pp.First edition. This is another paragraph Product Description: 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 n nAbout the Author nA LESSER EVIL is Lesley Pearse's fourteenth novel. A number-one bestseller, she is greatly loved around the world, and her books have sold over 2 million copies in the UK alone. Her seven most recent novels, including SECRETS and REMEMBER ME, are published by Penguin. Lesley Pearse lives near Bristol, has three daughters and one grandson.