Dancing Backwards

Salley Vickers

Her fellow passengers are a varied bunch. There’s an ex sea captain, a theatre critic and a romantic novelist. There’s a kind of clairvoyant and plenty of married couples, some of them better matched than others.

Soon Violet finds herself listening to their stories, offering advice and being used as an accomplice. She enjoys the diversion and starts to worry that she is turning into an elderly version of Jane Austen’s Emma. In reality, she reminded me more of a Miss Marple; and indeed she does solve a minor crime.