Maybe it was reading [b:Turning Pointe: How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself|55278169|Turning Pointe How a New Generation of Dancers Is Saving Ballet from Itself|Chloe Angyal|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1604382594l/55278169._SY75_.jpg|72778475] or having Covid, but when I was out of library books on my tablet, I grabbed this old favorite from my bookshelf. It's a middle-grades novel before that term existed, published in 1936 and chronicles the lives of three adopted, orphan sisters in London. They aspire to be an actor (Pauline), chauffeur (Petrova), and ballet dancer (Posy). Lucky for them, their financially struggling guardian puts them in stage training school, where they can learn the skills to earn money upon turning twelve. (Can you imagine? And it worked!)

Something I didn't get on earlier reads--I hope the Doctors and Jakes and Smith were lovers! I also didn't know that [a:Noel Streatfeild|2951738|Noel Streatfeild|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1291700168p2/2951738.jpg] was a woman!

I wish I could get access to the BBC series from the 1970s!