<p>My &apos;Pygmalion&apos; moment when I learn to &apos;speak posh&apos;, learn how to read &amp; write at last and secret moments with my parents and baby sister Gaynor in the Tuck Box room. </p>

Ballet Classes - episode 15

Arms Out Like Wings is an anecdotal memoir about my seven years spent in a ballet boarding school from 1969 to 1976 aged nine to seventeen.  A ‘Pygmalion-esque’ story that takes me from my crowded, loving council house home of siblings, cockney, lorry driver Dad and Italian seamstress Mother, to a Rolls Royce gliding through London, tinkling piano music in corridors and marquees on the lawn.  This book will give you an insight into a young ballet dancers life.  The initial spark, training, literal blood sweat and tears, close friendships, pranks, pain, disappointment, injury, romance and sacrifices.