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Issue Details: First known date: 1996... 1996 West End Shuffle
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All her life, bubbly redhead Carmen Morton has dreamed of being a dancer in a West End musical. When she's accepted into the Dance Centre, a prestigious dance training school, it seems she's half-way there. Leaving home for the first time, sixteen-year-old Carmen is caught in a whirl of freedoms. She soon learns that the price of independence may be higher than she had expected - and that friends are not always what they seem.... (Back cover blurb).

Notes

  • Dedication: For Emma.
  • Author's note: '...Although I have used the ABS, the Queensland Dance School of Excellence, and similar institutions as loose models, the Dance Centre and the characters and events connected with it in West End Shuffle have no existence outside my own imagination...' Natalie Jane Prior, Brisbane, 1995.
  • London Calling (1997) is the sequel to West End Shuffle.

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y separately published work icon London Calling Natalie Jane Prior , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1997 Z399622 1997 single work novel young adult Shattered by her father's unexpected death, Carmen Morton decides to achieve her life's ambition: to be a dancer in a London West End musical. But London is a big and lonely city, and the path to fame is paved with unemployment and botched relationships. As she lurhces from one disaster to the next, Carmen is forced to re-examine her motives - and confront the unplesant possibility that she might not make it after all...(Back cover blurb).
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Untitled Cathrine Harboe-Ree , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 4 no. 3 1996; (p. 38)
— Review of West End Shuffle Natalie Jane Prior , 1996 single work novel
Untitled Anne Hanzl , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 40 no. 4 1996; (p. 41)
— Review of West End Shuffle Natalie Jane Prior , 1996 single work novel
Serial Fictions Katharine England , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 181 1996; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Checkers John Marsden , 1996 single work novel ; West End Shuffle Natalie Jane Prior , 1996 single work novel ; Goddess of Cool Carol Jones , 1996 single work novel
Serial Fictions Katharine England , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 181 1996; (p. 60-61)
— Review of Checkers John Marsden , 1996 single work novel ; West End Shuffle Natalie Jane Prior , 1996 single work novel ; Goddess of Cool Carol Jones , 1996 single work novel
Untitled Anne Hanzl , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia , November vol. 40 no. 4 1996; (p. 41)
— Review of West End Shuffle Natalie Jane Prior , 1996 single work novel
Untitled Cathrine Harboe-Ree , 1996 single work review
— Appears in: Viewpoint : On Books for Young Adults , Spring vol. 4 no. 3 1996; (p. 38)
— Review of West End Shuffle Natalie Jane Prior , 1996 single work novel
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