Miss McKirdy's Daughters Will Now Dance the Highland Fling by Barbara Kinghorn

Miss McKirdy's Daughters Will Now Dance the Highland Fling by Barbara Kinghorn

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Miss McKirdy had three daughters - one of them Barbara Kinghorn - and taught them Scottish dancing in South Africa. Growing up in a troubled family before the end of apartheid, Barbara eventually left South Africa for England. This is her story. Part of the 1995 Scottish Book Fortnight promotion.

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Miss McKirdy's Daughters Will Now Dance the Highland Fling by Barbara Kinghorn

Miss McKirdy had three daughters - one of them Barbara Kinghorn - and she taught them Scottish dancing at a convent school in South Africa. She made sure her daughters danced well and they won prizes at the Highland Games in Edinburgh. Barbara grew up dealing not only with her mother's obsession with dancing, but her father's alcoholism, one sister's slow descent into madness and another's death from cancer. This was lived out against a background of life in South Africa before the end of apartheid. Finally Barbara left South Africa for England where life was something of a shock - particularly when she found herself working as a maid for the aristocracy in between doing acting jobs.
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ISBN 13 9780552996372
ISBN 10 0552996378
Title Miss McKirdy's Daughters Will Now Dance the Highland Fling
Author Barbara Kinghorn
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
Year published 1995-07-06
Number of pages 336
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.