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Thanks Issy, Cin and Hitch. That is all just fantastic advice and feedback. Guys, I am a reader too. I know what it's like to be blown out of a story by implausibility or inauthentic or inconsistent or inaccurate writing. I watch carefully for these things so as to not lose my reader.
It seems the word "hostile" was perhaps ill chosen. (Being prone to hyperbole as I am.) The beta reader provided really significant help and was not suggesting I shelve the book. When the book was first written I used The London Ballet as the place my MC was trying to get in as a dancer. That was a bad choice I was told. Not lofty enough. And hence the Royal Ballet. And she made several great suggestions. And the Royal Ballet is a very small aspect of the book. This is not a book about ballet. It's about an unreliable, possibly delusional, narrator who thinks she could be a prima ballerina. The Royal Ballet and the process of auditioning there hardly figure into the story.
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