They’re both guarded, but as truth comes out, unspooling in a gradual, rather delicious sense of mystery, there are quite a few surprises for each of them that twist the story all over. Can you explain how these themes intertwine?īoth characters hold pieces of themselves back, for different reasons. The more I researched, the more my story changed in surprising ways, but I loved exploring ballet, something very new to me.įF: Similar to the Phantom of the Opera, mystery and romance make the perfect dance partners in A Midnight Dance. She was enthralled-but to my surprise, so was I! I was inspired to capture the energy and vibrancy of live ballet theater and to portray the surprising history of dance. My sweet daughter has fallen in love with ballet, so I took her to a live performance when she was four. When she returns as a trained dancer years later, will he remember her? Does she have a chance at a happy ending, or will her life continue to parallel the tragic story of Craven’s ghost dancer? Faced with her family’s past in the theater, and her own looming secrets, her future takes a turn not even she can predict.įF: What was the inspiration for your new novel? In the Victorian ballet theater, Ella Blythe experiences an unexpected midnight dance with the company’s principal dancer and is determined to dance with him one day on the stage. Mystery and romance make the perfect dance partners in this evocative story.įF: Please provide a brief summary of A Midnight Dance. She brings the theater and the beauty of dance to life in this gripping tale of moving beyond fear to embracing one’s future. In this interview, Joanna talks about her latest novel, In A Midnight Dance. She lives with her husband and their children in a house in the woods near Lake Michigan.
She loves tales that capture the colorful, exquisite details in ordinary lives and is eager to hear anyone’s story. Joanna Davidson Politano is the award-winning author of Lady Jayne Disappears, A Rumored Fortune, Finding Lady Enderly, and The Love Note.
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