The long awaited sequel to the best-selling mass market novel Jazz Dancer. Author, Nicholas Walker, actually went to one of the major dance schools for three months and joined in all the classes to experience the dedication, the crippling workload...the pain and the joy of being a professional dancer.It is a year later and Leon has followed Angela to The Academy and both are doing well but Angela is having problems coping with the pressure. Then Leon is expelled after being arrested by the police and goes to live with his best friend Tina. After months of searching for work, choreographer Andre Lehmann, offers Leon the most thankless job in dancing: the part of Tweedledum in his new production Alice.Leon starts to dance with the beautiful Lace for this new rock musical and is introduced to the magical word of professional dancers but will this finally destroy his love affair with Angela?This book rips the top off the world of dancing and introduces the reader to the real blood, sweat and tears of the cut throat industry of professional entertainment. This is how it really is where thousands of young people strive every day of their lives for that one break that might lead to employment...or total failure!