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(0)Martha Schabas
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Shy and socially awkward, Georgia is only at ease when she is dancing. When she is accepted into the exclusive Royal Toronto Ballet Academy, she thinks she will find the strength and control she lacks elsewhere in her life. However, she is singled out by the school's artistic director--who subjects her to increasingly demanding training--and Georgia obsesses about becoming his perfect ballerina.
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A piercing, poignant novel about a scarred actress at a breaking point. Justine feels uneasy in her marriage, her theatre career and her relationship with her estranged mother, a famous painter. An intuitive and uncanny mimic, distinguished by a pronounced scar across her forehead (the result of a childhood accident), Justine has made acting the centre of her life since she was a teenager, but lately her seemingly charmed off-stage life in Toronto...
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