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    Hester's Story
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    Hester's Story
    Audiobook17 hours

    Hester's Story

    Written by Adèle Geras

    Narrated by Maggie Mash

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    About this audiobook

    Hester Fielding was once the leading ballerina of her day. Her life is the stuff of drama: a bleak Yorkshire childhood transformed by the discovery of her amazing gifts as a dancer; a dangerous love affair that can only lead to heartbreak; and a secret that would topple her from her pinnacle of fame if it ever came out. Now Hester has returned to Yorkshire, to Wychwood where, each year at Christmas, a ballet is performed on Twelfth Night in the little theatre there.This year, the brilliant young choreographer Hugo Carradine has been invited to direct the ballet Sarabande. Claudia Drake is Hugo's lover and the ballet's star - every inch a prima ballerina in style, but is she just a little past her best?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherW. F. Howes Ltd Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2012
    ISBN9781471211447
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    Hester's Story
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    Adèle Geras

    ADELE GERAS was born in Jerusalem and travelled widely as a child. She started writing over twenty-five years ago and has published more than 80 titles. Ithaka was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Chirldren's Book Award. She lives in Manchester with her husband and has two grown-up daughters and two grandchildren.

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    • 3/5
      I read this when it first came out and totally forgot I had read it until somebody mentioned it the other day. Perhaps I don't remember it much because I didn't enjoy it particularly. It just wasn't my type of book and I found it a little slow. I though the main character was very self-centered and was not particularly keen on her.
    • 5/5
      It's funny, I'm not at all interested in ballet itself, but I enjoy fiction about ballet. This one pulled me in and I kept reading more at a sitting than I had intended.