Strictly Ballroom: Tales from the Dancefloor review – tripping the light fantastic

Diana Melly’s account of a lifetime of dancing reveals how music helped her mourn her late husband George Melly

Following the death of her husband, writer and jazz musician George Melly, from vascular dementia in 2007, Diana Melly realised quickly that she “didn’t have the Latin” for cryptic crosswords and instead threw herself into ballroom dancing to fill the space his prolonged illness had left.

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