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Susan’s Bookshelves: Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild

Although Noel Streatfeild’s best known (and first) novel was published back in 1936, I didn’t read it in childhood. I was not a “ballet child”. My mother loathed what she called “little girls showing off” so there was never any question of it. I was in my twenties before I saw my first ballet although […]

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