The Mitchley Waltz |
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| General Editor:
| Canham, Alison |
| Contribution by:
| Edgar, Iris |
| Author:
| Canham, Raymond |
| ISBN: | 979-8-5072-5815-4 |
| Publication Date: | May 2021 |
| Publisher: | Independently Published
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $21.24 |
Book Description:
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London 1955 - 1958 As the country was finally recovering from war, one woman in North London received a grim diagnosis. She recorded the events that changed her life in her diaries. Trying to make the best of her confinement in hospital, Iris had to face the fear that her blossoming career as a ballroom dancing instructor may now be over, along with any possibility of finding love with any of her potential suitors. As the years passed, the diaries...
More Description London 1955 - 1958
As the country was finally recovering from war, one woman in North London received a grim diagnosis. She recorded the events that changed her life in her diaries.
Trying to make the best of her confinement in hospital, Iris had to face the fear that her blossoming career as a ballroom dancing instructor may now be over, along with any possibility of finding love with any of her potential suitors.
As the years passed, the diaries recorded her personal traumas and anxieties, her dreams and ambitions and they revealed a survivor who faced her worries with a steely determination and fought to overcome the legacy of permanent frailty.
Ignoring medical advice and returning to the dancefloor, could she ever make her dreams a reality, and could she risk opening her heart to the shy widower who had started attending her classes?
After her death in 2018, her son found her diaries among her possessions and set about transcribing them. Along with additional research and commentary he has brought the London that Iris knew in the 1950s back to life in vivid technicolour.