They danced in Bloomsbury Square...

Ballet Twins by Jean Estoril aka They danced in Bloomsbury Square by Mabel Esther Allan published 1967 How have I missed this book? I would have enjoyed it so much when I was young, but am still loving it now. It was recommended in the comments on our recent post on fictional schools A New Favourite Schoolboy: not called MacKenzie Bly Louloureads wrote this: 'my very favourite fictional school is from a book no-one ever seems to have read, Jean Estoril's Ballet Twins. It's about two working class girls from Birkenhead who win scholarships to the prestigious Lingeraux Ballet Academy in London. They stay at a boarding house, another setting I have apparently always loved! I reread Ballet Twins a few years ago after finding a second-hand copy and the magic more or less held up, which is not the case for all my childhood favourites...' And then CLM answered her: 'I also love that Mabel Esther Allan/Jean Estoril Ballet Twins book, LouLou. In the US, it was published as We Danced in…