I'd been looking forward to the film adaptation of
Ballet Shoes, a favorite novel from my childhood. (Unlike
Jenny, though, my favorite Streatfeild novel was
The Painted Garden, otherwise known as
Movie Shoes, not this one.) Unfortunately the NYT reviewer
doesn't think it's so great.
My favorite Streatfield novel was Apple Bough. It had lots of things to puzzle over, like how you passed a test "with flying colors," and it introduced me to Browning's poem "Home Thoughts, from Abroad."
ReplyDeleteReally I loved them all, and of course had much stronger aspirations in the acting direction than dancing!
ReplyDeleteI agree on the cultural references thing - I puzzled over many, many things and enjoyed figuring 'em out years later!