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Lucy Ashe

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Fiction, Historical Fiction, Thriller

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LUCY ASHE is the author of CLARA & OLIVIA (Magpie, Oneworld publications), published as THE DANCE OF THE DOLLS in the US (Union Square & Co). Her second novel is THE SLEEPING BEAUTIES.

CLARA & OLIVIA was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Historical Dagger 2024.

She trained at the Royal Ballet School for eight years, first as a Junior Associate and then at White Lodge. She has a diploma in dance teaching with the British Ballet Organisation.

She studied English Literature at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, while continuing to dance and perform. She then took a PGCE teaching qualification and became an English teacher.

Her poetry and short stories have been published in a number of literary journals and she was shortlisted for the 2020 ...more

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Average rating: 3.68 · 1,162 ratings · 280 reviews · 4 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Dance of the Dolls 3.65 avg rating — 965 ratings — published 2023 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sleeping Beauties 3.77 avg rating — 173 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Ghastling: Book Twelve by Rebecca Parfitt (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nathaniel Winter-Hebert (Design), Lucy Ashe (Goodreads Author) 4.43 avg rating — 21 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Model Patient: the ADDICTIVE, twisty new read about toxic obsession and betrayal 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

tags: ballet, ballet-shoes, dance, desire, hard-work, obsession, pain, twins

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“I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

tags: art, ballet, dance, love, obsession, pain

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“Once war was over, everyone wanted to find some normality, to settle and fix their disordered homes. The reality, of course, was that it was impossible. Not with rationing and homes bombed and fathers not yet returned.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Sleeping Beauties

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“Surely you would like to be immortalised in art, fixed forever in perfection?”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

tags: art, dance, male-gaze, obsession, thriller

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“I thought that this mad life you all live, always on the edge of pain and exhaustion, was somehow worth it. It was glamorous, beautiful, justified by art.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

tags: art, ballet, dance, love, obsession, pain

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“Without pain, how do we know we are working hard enough? I said that to Clara once and she laughed at me. She didn’t understand what I meant.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

tags: ballet, ballet-shoes, dance, desire, hard-work, obsession, pain, twins

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“He imagines dancing with her, the two of them arm in arm under the stars. Silent, of course, but that is no matter. It is better that way. She is a dancing doll, his Coppélia, created at last.”
― Lucy Ashe, The Dance of the Dolls

tags: ballet, dancing, desire, dolls, historical-fiction, male-gaze, obsession, thriller

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