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The Dance of the Dolls
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The Sleeping Beauties
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"The Sleeping Beauties by Lucy Ashe
With a ballet backdrop, former ballerina Lucy Ashe has crafted a suspenseful historical novel set in 1945 Britain. The main characters are Rosmund, Jasmine, and Briar Rose. With the war over, Rosmund is in the proces" Read more of this review » |
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"A beautifully written sleeping beauty retelling with suspense, romance and beauty. "
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Putting My Heels Down: a memoir of having a dream...and a day job
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“Clearly it is simplest never to marry at all,’ I said, trying to keep my voice light. These stories, ridiculous fairy tales though they were, had tainted the evening. Like Vivian, I preferred to think of The Sleeping Princess as a magical spectacle of fairy godmothers and characters from folklore. But then we had both learned the hard way about heartbreak and loss.”
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“Once war was over, everyone wanted to find some normality, to settle and fix their disordered homes. The reality, of course, was that it was impossible. Not with rationing and homes bombed and fathers not yet returned.”
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“Clearly it is simplest never to marry at all,’ I said, trying to keep my voice light. These stories, ridiculous fairy tales though they were, had tainted the evening. Like Vivian, I preferred to think of The Sleeping Princess as a magical spectacle of fairy godmothers and characters from folklore. But then we had both learned the hard way about heartbreak and loss.”
― The Sleeping Beauties
― The Sleeping Beauties
“Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― The Dance of the Dolls
“Once war was over, everyone wanted to find some normality, to settle and fix their disordered homes. The reality, of course, was that it was impossible. Not with rationing and homes bombed and fathers not yet returned.”
― The Sleeping Beauties
― The Sleeping Beauties
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“Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― The Dance of the Dolls
“I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― The Dance of the Dolls
“Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― The Dance of the Dolls
“He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last.”
― The Dance of the Dolls
― The Dance of the Dolls
“Once war was over, everyone wanted to find some normality, to settle and fix their disordered homes. The reality, of course, was that it was impossible. Not with rationing and homes bombed and fathers not yet returned.”
― The Sleeping Beauties
― The Sleeping Beauties
