Lorna Hill

Veronica Weston dreams of studying ballet at Sadler's Wells and through her determination overcomes all obstacles in pursuit of her dream.

A Dream of Sadler's Wells

Ella at the Wells

Back-Stage

Principal Rôle

Dancer in the Wings

Secret

As a lonely orphan, Nona Browning sees Sylvia Swann dance the Sugar Plum Fairy. Sylvia helps the disfigured child to walk - and even to dance. But when Nona has to leave the orphanage to work, it looks like her dancing days are over forever.

Dress Rehearsal

Dancing Peel

Dancer in Danger

Caroline Wells, who follows her cousin Veronica to the Sadler's Wells Ballet School, discovers that her affinity is for Spanish dancing rather than classical ballet.

No Castanets at the Wells

Kathleen Whapham

What happened before at Sadler's Wells will definitely interest those who read and enjoyed the first persons account of the young ballerina's first year as a Sadler's Wells student. In this book, earlier in time than the other, the famous ballet school is as yet an unaccomplished reality for enthusiastic Veronica. With her father recently dead, Veronica's intimate narrative tells how she is sent to stay with her wealthy cousins, Caroline and Fiona, who live in Newcastle, and how she met her own distant cousin, Sebastian, on the train going north. With Caroline, Fiona and Sebastian - who intends to be a musician, Veronica's year is full of escapades, squabbles and hard work. Allowed to take lessons, she is finally "seen" in a performance and promised an audition. The climax is an exciting race to get to London in time for the show. Breathless but relatively discerning. In A Dream of Sadler's Wells, 14-year-old Veronica is suddenly uprooted from her life in London and the ballet classes she loves so much when her father dies. Now she has to move away to live with mean relatives. How will she cope?

During a visit to Scotland, dancer Jane Foster is faced with a choice between the two most important things in her life--her dancing and her love for Guy Charlton.

Jane Leaves the Wells

Veronica Weston finds studying ballet at Salder's Wells exciting, frightening, and a lot of hard work. It pays off for her in a role at Covent Garden at the age of 15.

Lorna Hill

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