Watch Her Fall: An utterly gripping and twisty edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller from the bestselling author

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Watch Her Fall: An utterly gripping and twisty edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller from the bestselling author

Watch Her Fall: An utterly gripping and twisty edge-of-your-seat suspense thriller from the bestselling author

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I have never watched a ballet but after reading ‘Watch her Fall’, I have a deep respect for the ballet dancers and their art form, as ballet is indeed an art and one that requires an incredible depth of training and dedication.

After years of blood, sweat and tears, ballet dancer Ava Kirilova has finally reached the top of her profession. As the poster girl for Swan Lake and the daughter of the London Russian Ballet Company’s intense and uncompromising director, Ava is both revered and feared by her fellow dancers. She might have been born to play the dual lead of Odette/Odile in her father’s hotly anticipated ballet, but Ava can’t afford to get complacent. Becoming a principal dancer is hard enough. It’s keeping your place at the top that’s the real battle – and Ava has plenty of young, hopeful and ambitious girls nipping at her heels, ready to steal her spot should she fall. I have read and loved several of Erin Kelly’s previous books, but Watch Her Fall is now my absolute favourite by far! The story is told from several viewpoints and pulls no punches when describing the rigours and sacrifices needed to reach the required perfection of first ballerina. Ava’s character is easily sympathetic, she is trapped under the Svengali hold of her father. He calls all the shots including her access to money. Whilst Ava is sympathetic, she has no problem treating company dancers in a rather dismissive way and that behaviour is at odds with the readers’ instinct to care. It seems so effortless .. it's brilliant and you really do not guess what's coming' Virgin Radio, Graham Norton

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Swan Lake is about to open at the London Russian Ballet Theatre run by Nikolai Kirilov who tyrannically instils rigorous Russian technique into the dancers in his company. Taking the lead role of Odette and Odile is Nikolai’s daughter Ava Kirilova. The storyline cleverly mirrors the ballet in the evolving twists and turns in this well written thriller. The Acts and Interludes are told from several perspectives and these different narratives work well taking the storytelling into unexpected directions delivering a sequence of surprises.

Immerse yourself in the claustrophobic, competitive world of ballet. Beautifully dark and complex. So good! - Jane Fallon

It seems so effortless .. it’s brilliant and you really do not guess what’s coming’ Virgin Radio, Graham Norton The book starts too slow and firstly I thought why my favorite goodreads reviewers gave five stars to this book. But after reading acts and focusing on interludes, I thought “okay this is well constructed, multi POVed, truly impressive four starred story” and… yes the bomb exploded! That twist… that freaking twist was game changer! Watch Her Fall is Erin Kelly's most ambitious and captivating book to date, an absolutely enthralling look at the dark underbelly of the ballet world, built into a shifting narrative of time and place that was so thrilling and unexpected that it made my head spin - Lisa Jewell It’s Ava’s desire to be the best that sees company dancer, Juliet, take a career ending fall. Ava’s guilt, over the incident, is assuaged by allowing the youngster to recuperate in her minimalist yet palatial home as she embarks on the world tour of Swan Lake. This is a fabulous book. A tour de force. Erin Kelly’s book caught me up in the ballet dancers’ world and never let go once. The precision and expertise of her writing brought me inside the London Russian Ballet Theatre where its autocratic director Nikolai Kirilov is determined that his dancers shall follow his choreography without exception. Here there is only his way. No room for personality, no room for distractions. His dancers shall give their all and if they fail to do so they are gone without compunction.



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