There Should Be More Dancing

Margery Blandon is an elderly widow with a fondness for cross-stitching. She has three selfish adult children, one of whom is keen for her to move out of her home into a 'home'. Margery is not keen at all. When her care worker's mother is moved in, Margery takes action which involves taking to the roof of a hotel. A darkly comic meditation on family, aging, generational injustice and property development.

'There Should Be More Dancing is an edgier and more ambitious novel than The Dressmaker [Ham's previous novel]. But it confronts its big themes robustly, and confirms Rosalie Ham as a daring and original writer.' - Linda Funnell, The Newtown Review of Books

Rosalie Ham is the author of five novels, including the international best-selling dark revenge comedy The Dressmaker, adapted into the acclaimed feature film directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and starring Kate Winslet. There Should Be More Dancing was first published in 2011.