Rebecca Horsfall

This tale of love, dedication and dysfunctional relationships in the ballet world is unputdownable

Secrets, betrayal and friendship all play their part in this sweeping novel

Rebecca Horsfall's fantastic novel discovers the importance of letting go of the past and looking to the future ... the characters are amazing! If you're like me, and you appreciate a tear-jerker, this is for you. Brilliant!

The blockbuster for the summer suitcases: 736 unputdownable pages of pure delight ... This presses all the right buttons for a great read: romantic, exciting, tragic, suspenseful and compulsive - you can't fault it

Curl up on the sofa with a steaming cup of your favourite hot drink and let yourself be absorbed inot the epic warmth of Rebecca Horsfall's delicious debut novel. Dancing on Thorns is enticing, compelling and intense

When Jonni Kendal comes to London to pursue her dream of becoming an actress, she's young, naive, full of courage and determined to excel. Just nineteen, she's desperate to escape the narrow, parochial life her parents have planned for her. 
 
Jean-Baptiste St. Michel is haunted by his father: the man who abandoned him as a child, the man he can hardly remember, the man he cannot forget. Driven by his determination to forge a life for himself outside of the shadow his father's famous name casts, he's ambitious, talented and dangerously attractive - but suspicious of emotional attachments. 
 
When Michel rescues Jonni one night and takes her home, there's an immediate attraction. Jonni finds herself embraced by an exciting new world she never suspected existed, and Michel, ever wary of commitment, finds himself growing used to her presence in his life. But before he can commit to any kind of future, he must release himself from his past ...

Dancing on Thorns

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This tale of love, dedication and dysfunctional relationships in the ballet world is unputdownable

A welcome return to the epic-romance

The new Jilly Cooper

This tale of love, dedication and dysfunctional relationships in the ballet world is unputdownable

A welcome return to the epic-romance

The new Jilly Cooper

This tale of love, dedication and dysfunctional relationships in the ballet world is unputdownable

A welcome return to the epic-romance

The new Jilly Cooper

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