Drina Dances in Ireland

[slemslempike]

Last night I dreamt I was at a booksale and found a copy of Drina Dances in Ireland, and another book that I thought at the time was something about the Chalet School in Ireland, but surely it can't have been or I'd have been more excited. There was no time to read Drina Dances in Ireland, but I imagine she would have befriended the local Irish people, seen Irish dancing, taken up Irish dancing, excelled at Irish dancing, been offered a job Irish dancing but then decided that ballet was her true love and she must continue to follow in the footsteps of her dead mother. I expect that Queenie showed up only to be vanquished and Rose was overshadowed as per.

I was also on an opentop bus going round a large city with old architecture and spiny towers, and there was a roadsign with an arrow pointing down a hill reading "Middle Class", and I couldn't work out whether it was a political statement, saying where the middle classes lived, or directing middle class people to a more scenic route. Also I think everyone died at the end.

Comments

[serriadh.livejournal.com]

Drina! I used to read about her amazing adventures in amazingness. There was one on a cruise ship or something? And endless screeds about her real name, Andrina Adama, which she had simplified to 'plain' Drina (because that's such a normal name) Adams?

I always thought there was a gap in the series for Drina needs a slap, much as I loved them.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

I always thought there was a gap in the series for Drina needs a slap,

I am now, of course DESPERATE to read these books :)

[serriadh.livejournal.com]

I think they're still in print- very small girl ballet wish fulfillment type stuff. But wonderful with it. not quite as good as Lorna Hill or Noel Streatfield, perhaps, but good.