![]() ![]() Petrova, forever ostracised in the world of dance, offers hope to any girl who has ever felt unremarkable or talentless. Hers is a moral fable that all girls could do with remembering. Pauline’s fall from grace was one of the most shocking turns, I felt, which I have reminded myself of every time I have felt the flush of success. ![]() Unlike so many books these days, where the heroine is not only beautiful, brave and ultimately some kind of superhuman goddess, these girls’ flaws are all too recognisable in ourselves. And Posy, the precocious, hilarious baby dancer.īut for me, what really brings these girls alive is, for all their fantastic talents, their imperfections. There is the eldest, Pauline, famous for her “pink and white complexion” - for how many years have I longed for those rosy cheeks, for that soft golden Alice in Wonderland style hair! Then Petrova, who, in her disdain for all things theatrical and her two left feet, is probably my most likely contemporary. They are all chalk and cheese to each other, yet they have all at some stage been my favourite. Perhaps it is because their lives are so holistically narrated that by the end of the book, you consider them almost your own sisters. ![]() ![]() I think what made this book so attractive to me was the girls themselves. ![]()
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