A carefully chosen selection of 15 stories covering all aspects of a ballet dancer's life - from the trauma of audition and the agonies of training and rehearsals to the glory of live performance - against a backdrop of friendship, rivalry, disappointment and success.
There are contributions from famous ballerinas Dame Margot Fonteyn and Lynn Seymour as well as from brilliant authors Cynthia Voigt, Noel Streatfield and Harriet Castor. This is a wonderful, wide-ranging collection that's bound to appeal to all ballet and dance fans.