Invitation to the Waltz was the novel that cemented Rosamond Lehmann's reputation as one Britain's most celebrated writers of the interwar period. We follow its heroine, seventeen-year-old Olivia Curtis, as she prepares for the event that will mark her entrance into society and the world of adulthood -- the dance that gives the book its title. Lehmann's novel follows her subject's daydreams and flights of fancy as she prepares for, and lives through this defining event, and presents us with a perfectly formed world within its pages -- and a sensitive delineation of one girl's hopes, fears, delight and despair, and an enduring, delicate study of the human heart.
