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Today is my stop on the blog tour for The Sleeping Beauties by Lucy Ashe.
I read Lucy Ashe’s debut novel Clara and Olivia last year and loved it, so I was keen to read her latest book and it did not disappoint.
It’s 1945 and Rosamund Caradon feels optimistic that better things are coming after the end of the war.
She has worked tirelessly throughout the war looking after evacuee children from her large house in Devon. Now that it’s time to take her last evacuees back to London to be reunited after many years, she feels emotional at letting them go. It’s an unwelcome surprise then that as they settle down for the long train journey, a lady called Briar asks to join then in their train compartment.
Briar soon has their attention by talking about her life as a ballet dancer and she seems particularly interested in Rosamund's daughter Jasmine.
Who is Briar and is it a coincidence that she has found them?
This is a book full of mystery, secrets and obsession set against the backdrop of the second world war. I lived every minute of it and i think Lucy Ashe is fast becoming on of my favourite authors.
I also loved the way in which Sadlers Wells and ballet is weaved within the story. Sadlers wells is one of my favourite places to see ballet and we watched Edward Scissorhands there last month.
Thank you to Random Things Tours for including me. Check out the banner below to follow the other stops on the tour.
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About the Author
After training at the Royal Ballet School for eight years, Lucy Ashe decided to change career plans and go to university, where she read English Literature before doing a PGCE teaching qualification, and she is now a teacher. Her poetry and short stories have been published in a number of literary journals and she was shortlisted for the 2020 Impress Prize for New Writers
