Shattered by her father's unexpected death, Carmen Morton decides to achieve her life's ambition: to be a dancer in a London West End musical. But London is a big and lonely city, and the path to fame is paved with unemployment and botched relationships. As she lurhces from one disaster to the next, Carmen is forced to re-examine her motives - and confront the unplesant possibility that she might not make it after all...(Back cover blurb).