A Company of Swans (original 1985; edição 2008)

This may be one of the most awesomely insane things I've ever read: A beautifully threaded complex plot, pretty much all the tropes stirred in liberally and craftily bent to new purposes. Believable characters, from major to minor, fabulously crafted detail, and the best upending of upper class academic puritanism I've seen in ages.

Seriously: Ibbotson has no truck with shaming people for happiness, and it's utterly enthralling throughout. ( )

I bought this for Mckenna isn't exactly for Mckenna's age yet...It was interesting to say the least. ( )

I liked the idea of the story better than the story itself. Somehow the character just didn't appeal to me and neither did the love interest. However the author is a very skilled writer and the settings she created were very lush. Her descriptions of ballet and dancing were just wonderful. ( )

An old fashioned romance. I had a great time with it, despite Ibbotson's overuse of the tired plot device in which the hero and heroine keep being separated by misunderstandings.

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this is excactly what I imagined my life would be if I was day-dreaming... dancing ballet and having a great advanture far away from home, running toward the unknowen. meeting a handsome starnger and falling in love... ( )