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Dancing round raindrops
If you believe love is worth fighting for whatever the cost, this book's for you. It is a story of us, then.
At the turn of the century, five-year-old Dorothy Terrill is adopted out of rural poverty into a sumptuous life of privilege in Mayfair, with disastrous results. Left unfit for either domestic service or upper class marriage, she is persuaded to wed a gay Romanian confectioner at a time when xenophobia and homophobia has made it too dangerous for him to remain in London without an English wife. Trapped in a union of opposites, Dorothy secretly escapes to the Tea Dances every afternoon. There she falls in love with Harold, but although Dorothy’s husband despises her, he has no intention of setting her free in an era when divorce ruined reputations and illegitimacy destroyed children’s lives.
Dancing round raindrops is based on a true story.
At the turn of the century, five-year-old Dorothy Terrill is adopted out of rural poverty into a sumptuous life of privilege in Mayfair, with disastrous results. Left unfit for either domestic service or upper class marriage, she is persuaded to wed a gay Romanian confectioner at a time when xenophobia and homophobia has made it too dangerous for him to remain in London without an English wife. Trapped in a union of opposites, Dorothy secretly escapes to the Tea Dances every afternoon. There she falls in love with Harold, but although Dorothy’s husband despises her, he has no intention of setting her free in an era when divorce ruined reputations and illegitimacy destroyed children’s lives.
Dancing round raindrops is based on a true story.
302 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 1, 2011
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