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DRINA DANCES IN EXILE

by Jean Estoril; Mabel Esther Allan

Published by Hodder & Stoughton. 1st. 1959

Slightly better than very good condition in a very good dustwrapper. Mabel Esther Allan writing as Jean Estoril. Drina is heartbroken by the news that she must leave London and go to the Dominick Residential Ballet School in the Chilterns. Blue cloth, gilt title to spine and vignette to front cover. 192 pages. Pictorial endpapers. 6 b/w illustrations.

Spine bumped. Contents fine. Dustwrapper (photographic design by Stead Studio) is damp stained to spine (with slight wear at top). Original printed price has been covered with a 'new' price sticker.

Stock no. 1314731

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Contents

  • Drina Adams, whose real name is Andrina Adamo and whose mother was the famous dancer Elizabeth Ivory, is heartbroken by the news that she must leave London, as her grandparents are off to Australia, and go to the Dominick Residential Ballet School in the Chilterns.
  • But as she gradually comes to like her country exile and makes new friends, including the puppy Petrouchka, whom she rescues from a trap.
  • The greatest excitement of all comes when she is given the name part in the ballet " The Changeling" to be danced at the Dominick Theatre, London.

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