The author was a ballerina and it shows in the love of her subject and her art. She has also written a couple of novels and that style shines through too. A lovely book.
This is the biography of the much-loved dancer, Margot Fonteyn, generally considered to be the best British ballerina of her generation. She was one of the rare artists whose name means as much to the ordinary man and woman as to devotees of their particular art.
In 1959 Meredith Daneman won a scholarship from her native Sydney to the Royal Ballet School. As a student there she danced at Covent Garden, before joining the Australian Ballet for its inaugural season. Meredith Daneman is the author of four novels: A Chance to Sit Down; The Groundling; Francie and the Boys and The Favourite. She lives in London.
