Dancing Backwards
Dancing Backwards

Author: Salley Vickers

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2010-08-03

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1429979887

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Violet Hetherington has taken the rash step of joining a transatlantic cruise to New York to visit Edwin, an old friend. As she makes the six-day crossing, she relives the traumatic events that led to her losing Edwin's friendship and abandoning her career as a poet for the safety of marriage and domesticity. Despite her natural reserve, she meets a rich variety of passengers traveling with her, who affect her understanding of her own past. Most significant, she meets Dino, the dancing host, whose motives in befriending Vi are shady but who teaches her to ballroom dance and inadvertently helps her to recover from her past. Moving between the late sixties and the present day, Dancing Backwards is written with the lightness of touch and psychological insight that characterize Salley Vickers's acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant, and wonderfully entertaining.

Dancing Backwards in High Heels
Dancing Backwards in High Heels

Author: Christine Darcas

Publisher: Hachette Australia

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0733625525

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At forty-two, Madeleine Huchinson is in a rut. Newly arrived in Australia from America, she is struggling to cope with two children, a flagging marriage and an overwhelming sense of invisibility. One winter evening while trying to get her sick son to a GP, she glimpes couples dancing, touching and laughing in a warmly lit studio. Attracted to this new world and reminded of her younger self, she decides to join a Latin American dance class. Maddy starts reclaiming her identity on the dance floor - facing choices that threaten her marriage and tempations that could see her lose everything.

Dancing Backward
Dancing Backward

Author: Thomas Lavalle

Publisher:

Published: 2019-01-11

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13: 9781793889249

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Kelly was rich, beautiful, spoiled and born bossy. For Christopher, she'd decided that absolute submission to her will was the destiny he secretly craved. In any case, it was the destiny he was going to get.From the moment Chris sees Kelly across the dance floor, he is as helpless as a marionette in her hands...At a distance, she was impressive; close-up she was lethal. She reminded Chris of Tinker Bell all grown up, with her pixie-cut, white-blonde hair and a tight-cinched lime sweater dress that emphasized reckless curves above and below..."I'm looking for a guy who will follow my lead--not only on the dance floor, but in all things. How do you feel about that?"Little does Chris dream what lies in store for him when Kelly makes him her dancing partner -- that this is only the first baby step in what will be a prolonged descent into complete and utter submission.

Dancing Backwards
Dancing Backwards

Author: Sharon Carstairs

Publisher: Virago Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 351

ISBN-13: 9781896150079

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Co-authored by Senator Sharon Carstairs and Tim Higgins, this is the first complete history of Canadian women in political life. The book profiles more than two dozen women in leadership roles, woven into an accurate and thoroughly readable history of Canadian society during the past 130 years. Following a chronological format, the book encompasses aspects of political leadership in areas beyond elected politics, including the judiciary and is illustrated with commissioned pen and ink portraits. Bibliography and index.

The Gentleman Dancing-Master
The Gentleman Dancing-Master

Author: Jennifer Thorp

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2024-04-28

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1835533388

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The Gentleman Dancing-Master: Mr Isaac and the English Royal Court from Charles II to Queen Anne considers the life and times of the dancer known as Mr Isaac, performer, teacher and creator of prestigious dances for performance at the royal court. Includes facsimiles and discussion of his surviving dances and their context.