106pp. Pictorial light card covers; illustrated throughout with photographs. 4to. Light chipping to edges and wear to covers. Signed and inscribed by author, 'To dear Joan and Peter, With all my love, Pat'. Internally, neat, clean, bright and tight.
The author writes about her childhood within a loving family and sharing with her husband the anxieties of wartime. Her training in ballet at the Hammond School in Chester followed by the problems of the post-war restrictions as a young mother on a low income are described, so too are the forty pleasant years teaching ballet to thousands of children.
