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Do you secretly dream of whirling across the dance floor in a dress more glamour personified than Joan Collins circa 1955? Are you still waiting for the love of your life to materialise (your boyfriend just doesn’t know it yet)? Do you love Strictly Come Dancing?Ava Dunne is trapped in a floundering relationship with Salisbury’s most unromantic boyfriend. Her domineering sister Lauren’s plans for a grand wedding are threatening to take over her existence, and thoughts of the hideous dress Lauren’s chosen for her to wear on the big day offer little distraction from monotonous village life.Until she joins a local dance class. OK, so it’s not exactly Strictly, her number one favourite TV show, but it’s a start. But then a handsome stranger from the neighbouring village joins the class and Ava’s life gets a whole lot more exciting. Will she finally get the Big Romance that has so far eluded her with this charming dance partner, or should she just count her blessings and settle with pragmatic Rob?As the latest series of Strictly Come Dancing draws closer, her boyfriend becomes ever more tedious and the dance classes become an increasingly alluring diversion, Ava must make a decision that will change the direction of her life forever.Prepare to be whisked off your feet with the second long-awaited Strictly Come Dancing novel.

Four novellas by Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, that once again show her to be unequalled in her ability to capture the truth of the human condition.The title story, ‘The Grandmothers’, is an astonishing tour de force, a shockingly intimate portrait of an unconventional extended family and the lengths to which they will go to find happiness and love. Written with a keen cinematic eye, the story is a ruthless dissection of the veneer of middle-class morality and convention.‘Victoria and the Staveneys’, takes us through 20 years of the life of a young underprivileged black girl in London. A chance meeting introduces her to the Staveneys – a liberal white middle-class family – and, seduced, she falls pregnant by one of the sons. As her daughter grows up, Victoria feels her parental control diminishing as the attractions of the Staveneys’ world exert themselves. An honest and often uncomfortable look at race relations in London over the past few decades, Lessing reaffirms her brilliance at demonstrating the effect of society on the individual.With these novellas, and ‘The Reason for It’ and ‘A Love Child’, Lessing proves once again that she is one of our most valuable and insightful living authors.