Publisher's Synopsis
The ballet: A demanding profession requiring talent and determination. But for Julie Felix, Britain's first black ballerina, it required more; it required the strength to climb above prejudice and win. In 'Brickbats and Tutus', John Plimmer charts the progress of this shy girl from Ealing as she grows from a raw talent in 1960s cold Britain into a swan dancing in the 1984 Olympiad.