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• Eleven-year-old Mandelina Kerensky has lived all her life in the Lancashire town of Stoneborough. Although her mother comes from London, her father was Russian and one of her grandmothers was Greek. After her father's death she and her mother have very little money, but two things make Mandelina happy - the Russian dances her father taught her, and what she and her friend Alice call 'the ballet dream'. It all started because Mandelina once said that her grandfather was stage doorkeeper at the Lingeraux Theatre. Together the two girls learn about ballet from books, listen to music and watch performances on television.