Maggie Shipstead's Astonish Me, read by Rebecca Lowman, is wonderful. I've been dipping into novels with ballet settings lately, and found this gem. Some elements reminded me of the film The Turning Point, which I adored. The structure is complex, jumping around in time, offering different POV characters, but somehow Shipstead manages to keep it all from being too confusing. I loved everything about this book, and I wanted it to keep going.
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