Éilís Ní Dhuibhne’s The Dancers Dancing, first published in 1999, is one of the best, most evocative, and most understated novels about a young girl’s coming-of-age that I have read. It is set in the summer of 1972, when thirteen-year-old Orla, the child of an English mother and a Dublin father, is sent off to…
Posted on 15th December 2011
