Marie, warm and soft, teaches the younger students Dara, with her precision, trains the older ones and Charlie, sidelined from dancing after years of injuries, rules over the back office. After their parents' death in a tragic accident nearly a dozen years ago, the sisters began running the school together, along with Charlie, Dara's husband and once their mother's prized student. Growing up, they were homeschooled and trained by their glamorous mother, founder of the Durant School of Dance. With their long necks and matching buns and pink tights, Dara and Marie Durant have been dancers since they can remember.
Save your spot in the free event below.Īttendees purchasing Megan Abbott's THE TURNOUT from An Unlikely Story will recieve a signed copy, while supplies last.īestselling and award-winning author Megan Abbott's revelatory and mesmerizing new novel set against the hothouse of a family-run ballet studio. Full of gasp-inducing plot twists and simmering with an uncomfortable sexuality." Joining Megan for the event is Alafair Burke, the international bestselling author of the thrillers THE BETTER SISTER and THE WIFE. Mirroring the shadowy underbelly of the ballet THE NUTCRACKER, as well as the dark, sensual world of fairy tales, THE TURNOUT is soon twisting and turning in unexpected ways as family secrets and lies come to light. Our Unlikely bookseller Bill loved this book and said "THE TURNOUT is easily Megan Abbott's best book.
The book is a sharp and strange dissection of family ties, femininity, and power that follows two sisters who run a dance school. Megan Abbott, award-winning author and executive producer of USA's adaptation of DARE ME, joins us for a virtual event to introduce her new irresistible thriller, THE TURNOUT.
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