There Should Be More Dancing

Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, secrets kept and eventually revealed, dysfunctional families, problems of ageing and trying to keep your independence, ignorance and blinkered to what your actions have done in the past and how it affects people around you, friendships and enemies - it's all here in a......more

'There Should Be More Dancing' follows Margery Blandon and the diminishing freedoms she experiences in her 70s. Margery takes comfort in her needle work, coffee and cake deals on shopping day, her fortnightly foot massage, and tries to find ways to compensate for her fading physical abilities. Her l......more

The author has quite a different writing style which took me awhile to get used to. The chapters too are written alternately in current and prior time lines which also takes some getting used to. But keep reading as the story is wonderful. Margery and her family are all quite dysfunctional - as are......more

Interesting, at times entertaining. It took me a few pages to adjust to the structure of the book which alternated between first person account of the climatic event in a ruminatory style and an omniscient 3rd person narrative the events leading up to the climax. What made it a bit harder to read th......more