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

[stellanova.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wish I could read both these dreambooks, especially the Chalet School one! Why don't they exist?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Can you imagine her rendering of the "brogue"? Biddy could have discovered her roots, and Jo could have been unbearable about the political situation.

[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.

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

That's a fantastic dream. I have similar ones, but can never remember the plot of the books/movies/Paul Simon albums.

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

I have never read a Drina book, but I LOVED the summing up of the new one!

[sabethea.livejournal.com]

*loves you*

[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 :)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think you'd probably quite enjoy Drina. The first one (Ballet for Drina) is quite easy to find - some library systems still have them even.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I rarely do, but I was so surprised in the dream to have found a hitherto unheard of title that it stayed with me when I awoke.

[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.

[feather-ghyll.livejournal.com]

I love-hate vivid dreams where I go into bookshops an find these amazing girls' own books, title, smashing cover and all, and wake up and they're not real. Drina in Ireland would go down like that I'm almos surprised it didn't happen, although I think the author never wrote about Ireland, although she managed everywhere else - because Irish dancing! It would have been fab!