Dancing Backwards by Vickers Sally (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing.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, Violet meets a rich variety of passengers, who change 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 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 Sally Vicker's acclaimed work. This bittersweet novel is subtle, poignant, and wonderfully entertaining.

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Fourth Estate. 2009. First edition, first issue. Hardback in DW. FLAT - SIGNED BY AUTHOR to title page, no other inscriptions or dedications. A lovely clean copy in wrapper with slight shelfwear.