It's available in a Kindle edition, see here: for the uk or here, for the usa.

It's been described as ‘beautifully written’ by Joanna Lumley, and ‘suffused with a love of storytelling and a warmth that makes it a pleasure to read’ by the Daily Mail.

But just before you decide it’s too gloomy for words … it’s also a novel about hope and the restoration of trust, a novel that shows how stories can help make sense of our complicated internal worlds, a novel about the healing power of stories and, most of all, about the healing power of speaking of love. It's about how parents fail their children and those same children abandon their parents because what matters most hasn’t been said about how lovers grow apart and how the mental disintegration that can follow a failure to communicate can prohibit communication altogether. It explores the relationship of a mother and daughter and what happens when they don't talk about the things that matter the most. Speaking of Love is Angela’s first novel.

In 1995, BBC Books published Angela’s 30,000-word ending to Edith Wharton’s last, unfinished novel, The Buccaneers, a story of love and marriage set among the British aristocracy and the American moneyed classes in late nineteenth-century England. Choices that even the cataclysmic events of 1914-1919 seem unlikely to challenge.Īngela Young is a graduate of Middlesex University’s MA in Creative Writing and is the author of two novels. She is forced to compromise her romantic ideals and it is only when the tragedy of the Titanic touches her life, years later, that she discovers what love really means and the heartrending choices it poses. But the strictures of polite society are far-reaching and Natalie's happiness is abruptly snatched away. The dance of Natalie's life whirls her from the glittering ballrooms of London and the grand houses of Scotland and Devon, to the Scottish Highlands. Heart, for her, will always rule head, and so it seems that an encounter with a dashing yet gentle artist-soldier contains all the seeds of her life's happiness. But, isolated by her father's position as a self-made man, Natalie has never felt at ease in a society bound by a maze of conventions. Against a backdrop of high Edwardian luxury, Natalie Edwardes is poised on the brink of adulthood and, in an age when a woman's destiny is decided by marriage, her beauty, wit and wealth would seem to guarantee her a glittering future. What I’m writing, reading or thinking and what other people have written or thought, painted, made or designed: things I would love to have made, in a parallel universe where time is infinite and all things are possible.Įnter your email address to receive notifications of new articles.The Dance of Love is a coming-of-age tale that spans more than two decades of vast change.

The Dance of Love by Angela Young