Oh no…

That was something I said to myself, out loud, more than once while reading The Turnout. It wasn’t that the terrible things that happened were surprising, but instead that they were so grimly inevitable that it somehow made it all so much worse.

The story of two sisters and a spouse running a ballet school and having issues with renovations might not sound like a recipe for high tension, but believe me, this one turns the screw with excruciating precision. When I told my partner the basics of the plot she thought it sounded like a teen romance. It is not. It’s an adult story, but like most adult stories it carries a lot of baggage from childhood.