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Bedtime reading. 😆

I know that @CarolynM is a fan of this series … did anyone else read these as a child? Jean Estoril is a pen name for Mabel Esther Allan and I‘ve read some of her other books but not these.

#JohnnyBergen

#20series20days Drina

Thought I'd throw in a favourite series from childhood. Drina, secretly the daughter of a great ballerina who died tragically young, encounters triumphs, tragedies, friendships and jealousies during her career at ballet school. Scenes of London life, glimpses of what goes into making theatre and some exotic travel destinations captured my young imagination.

This was one of my favourite childhood series. I love ballet.
#HeatOfJuly #OneDance

I'm away from home at the moment, but luckily I have a picture of my Drina books for #riotgrams #bookyouveownedlongest My mum gave me Ballet for Drina when she went to hospital for an operation - the note she wrote in the front is dated 1991. She bought me more as holiday books & I finished off collection myself - they didn't all match originally, but now they do - I picked up the "right" Madeira, Switzerland and Ballerina from eBay!

The Drina series are my absolute favourites - I started reading as a primary school child and I've reread the entire series perhaps a dozen times. For me, the books - about the title character's journey from a young girl banned from dancing to a star of the Dominick Company - are the written equivalents of a huge hug. I have all 11 but these 2 are special as they're the same edition as the ones I read as a child. #UKYANov #pre21stcenturybook

Best character name?! How can you beat Andrina Adamo, AKA Drina Adams! The world is lucky I never had a daughter...if I did, I would have named her Andrina & called her Drina after the characters in these books (her middle name would have been Rose after 1) Drina's friend Rose in these books, 2) after author Rosamond Lehmann & 3) after Rose from Rebecca West's The Fountain Overflows (and its sequels)). #booktober