In 1988, two eight-year-old girls with almost identical names and the same love of ballet meet for the first time. They seem destined to be best friends forever and to become professional dancers.
Years later, however, they have both been dealt so many cruel blows that they walk away from each other into very different futures – one enters a convent, the other becomes a minor celebrity. Will these new, ‘invisible’ lives be the ones they were meant to live, or will they only find that kind of salvation when they are reunited twenty years later?Dorothy Koomson is the author of eleven novels including That Girl From Nowhere, The Chocolate Run, The Ice Cream Girls, The Woman He Loved Before and My Best Friend’s Girl. She’s been making up stories since she was thirteen, when she used to share her stories with her convent school friends. While writing When I Was Invisible, Dorothy rediscovered her love for music – especially 80s tunes – and has been asking everyone she sees nowadays, ‘What’s the one song you’re embarrassed about loving?’ So, what’s yours?
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