Historical novelist Ellen Feldman, author of "Lucy" (2003) and "Next to Love" (2013), among others, has read Sara Holliday's upcoming book, "A Thousand Dances: A Novel of the British Blues Boom." She gives it a thorough-going rave.
“A delightful flight of time travel back to the 1960s, when London was moving to an exuberant, irresistible new beat and the young and not-so-young couldn’t help but keep time to it," Feldman writes. "
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Sara Holliday not only knows the music, she brings to life with a big heart and a sly wit the musicians who made it, the people who fell in love with and to it, and a delicious, period-perfect suspense.”