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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 Shall We Dance?
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'Loulou Landers is about to turn forty-nine and she's feeling seriously overlooked. She hasn't had a relationship for twenty years, her 21-year-old daughter Theo is giving her the cold shoulder, and is that really a bunion making it so painful to walk, or is Christian Louboutin losing his touch? Theo can't see what her mum is so hung up about. It's only another birthday.

And she has more important things to think about- mainly herself. For not only is Loulou permanently single, but so is Theo - despite her legendary good looks. But over the course of a summer, everything changes. Two men set out to get both women back in the love game. The only problem is that both mother and daughter keep their burgeoning romances secret from each other. Because, in each case, there's a thirty-year age difference. And that's only one of the issues.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Victoria Killay
  • Author's note: This book is set in the lovely London 'village' of Primrose Hill, in a house around the corner from where I used to live. I still have such a sense of ownership of the neighbourhood that I've allowed myself free licence with the architecture, setting my heroine's shop in a row of houses at the eastern end of Regent's Park Rod, which is strictly residential. I wanted her to have a terrace. I gave her one.

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    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2010 .
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      Extent: 424p.
      Note/s:
      • Published October 2010 
      ISBN: 9781921518133
    • Surry Hills, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Penguin , 2011 .
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      Extent: 432p.
      Note/s:
      • Published October 20th 2010
      ISBN: 9780143205609

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Works about this Work

In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2010; (p. 38)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Helene Sobolewski , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 November 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
Chicklit Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 7 November 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
Friends or Toyboys? Karen Hardy , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 November 2010; (p. 3)
Untitled Jessica Broadbent , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 33)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
Fashionable Read Phil Brown , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Brisbane News , 20 - 26 October no. 806 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Jessica Broadbent , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , September vol. 90 no. 2 2010; (p. 33)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
Chicklit Lucy Sussex , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 7 November 2010; (p. 25)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
Untitled Helene Sobolewski , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 6 November 2010; (p. 26)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2010 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 20-21 November 2010; (p. 38)

— Review of Shall We Dance? Maggie Alderson , 2010 single work novel
Friends or Toyboys? Karen Hardy , 2010 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 2 November 2010; (p. 3)
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