![]() ![]() And Posy, the precocious, hilarious baby dancer.īut for me, what really brings these girls alive is, for all their fantastic talents, their imperfections. ![]() There is the eldest, Pauline, famous for her “pink and white complexion” - for how many years have I longed for those rosy cheeks, for that soft golden Alice in Wonderland style hair! Then Petrova, who, in her disdain for all things theatrical and her two left feet, is probably my most likely contemporary. They are all chalk and cheese to each other, yet they have all at some stage been my favourite. Perhaps it is because their lives are so holistically narrated that by the end of the book, you consider them almost your own sisters. ![]() I think what made this book so attractive to me was the girls themselves. ![]()
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