The novel follows her through a transformative year in her life, during which she is trying to decide if her love for dance is strong enough to abandon all dreams of normality - going to college, getting to know her parents, falling in love, or even having enough free time to read a book - and to dedicate herself entirely to her career. 19-year Hannah is a dancer with a major ballet company. (Imagine being fired for having breasts big enough to require a bra!) It would be very easy to find some high drama in it to write a shocking novel around - backstabbery, injuries, life-threatening dieting, exhausting, endless rehearsals - and it would probably be a more dynamic, more exciting novel than Bunheads.īut Sophie Flack chose to write a realistic story instead. The quietness of this novel works both against it and to its advantage.īallet dancing is an unforgiving, competitive, extremely demanding form of art. Bunheads is a very subdued, gentle novel about ballet dancing.
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