Dance of the Years

Dance of the Years is a fictionalised account of Allingham's family heritage, which she insisted was the closest record of the facts.

The novel tells the birth and growth of James, the offspring of the controversial pairing of a Georgian country gentleman and a gypsy mother. James is consistently torn between the two sides of his nature, which he attributes to his two parents. James is the fictional representative of Allingham’s great-grandfather who was “born in 1800 and left ten thousand pounds and the injunction that no gentleman ever works.” Despite his background, James becomes an early-Victorian success, devoting his riches to becoming a gentleman and establishing a family name.

A fascinating exploration of family ties and values by a famous author of detective crime fiction, this title will appeal to a wide range of readers.

Published in the US as The Galantrys.

Title: Dance of the Years
Published: 1943
Genre: Novels

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