The Turners have a major problem: The year; 1919 & Mr.Turner cant work! The Turners dont have the money to pay the rent or for food! Mrs Turner has an idea, vaudeville! The Turner girls are young, pretty and have very short skirts!
THE TUMBLING TURNERS SISTERS BY JULIETTE FAY is a historical fiction novel of the life of vaudeville stars. The author has created for us a fictional family that I could have sworn by the excellent research and writing were real people. Told by two of the Turner girls, Gert and Winnie, the Turners travel the vaudeville circuit performing tumbling gymnastic routine. We meet Nell, whose is a new widow of a WWI soldier with a new child, Mrs.Turner, who dreams up & keeps the girls going from place to place ,and the rest of the family. We get to meet the people who made up the vaudeville entertainers : the French singer,the black tap dancer & many many more performers. We get a behind the stage look at what was Vaudeville!
Like I said before, THE TUMBLING TURNER SISTERS was so excellently researched & the characters are so vivid, I kept having to remind myself this was fiction!
I received this book free from goodreads in exchange for an honest review
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