I wasn't expecting to love this book. But because I love dancing and Anton De Beke I wanted to give it a read. I am so glad I did. I was transported back to Mayfair in the 1930s and the glamour and glitz of a ballroom in grand hotel in Berkeley Square.
The story is woven with the elegance and grace of the time combined with world events that were happening at the time; the abdication of the King, the rise of Hitler in Germany, the brutality of those following Oswald Moseley's Fascist Black shirts in the UK and the civil war in Spain.
It tells of the great divide between those who have it all and the people who have very little and therefore to earn the pittance they have, they have to pander to the whims of the rich and pampered.
It is an easy read and a lovely story.
The story is woven with the elegance and grace of the time combined with world events that were happening at the time; the abdication of the King, the rise of Hitler in Germany, the brutality of those following Oswald Moseley's Fascist Black shirts in the UK and the civil war in Spain.
It tells of the great divide between those who have it all and the people who have very little and therefore to earn the pittance they have, they have to pander to the whims of the rich and pampered.
It is an easy read and a lovely story.