THE STILL POINT 2024 - Review

The Still Point by Tammy Greenwood
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

QUOTE: "Why waste all that time on something that just disappears. . .We dance and then it's all just a memory." 

My introduction to Award-winning author T. Greenwood was her twelfth novel. RUST & STARDUST, published in August 2018. The story is the gripping, heart wrenching novel of Sally Horner, the 11-year-old kidnapping victim whose abduction in 1948 inspired Vladimir Nabokov's LOLITA. I was surprised that she was now writing about the lives of young dancers.

FIRST LINE: "The world is on fire."

THE STORY: Three young dancers. Three supporting mothers. All friends and competitors. Life has seemed good until a well-known French instructor comes to their coastal California town to bestow a Paris scholarship on an outstanding ballerina.

WHAT I THOUGHT: If you are paying attention, you will glimpse the personal elements the author has scattered throughout the story. Although she has written that THE STILL POINT is not a memoir, Greenwoood raised her daughter, now a professional ballerina, and certainly understands the intense world of dance classes and rivalries. The storytelling makes the book a remembrance of when we were young, took dance lessons, but stopped.

BOTTOM LINE: Highly recommended because the writing is beautiful and the plot will keep the reader fascinated by the behind-the-scenes descriptions.

DISCLAIMER: A copy of was provided to me by Kensington Books / Net Galley for an honest review.

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