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Informationen zum Autor Lyn Gardner is the author of Olivia's First Term and the other Olivia books. She was born in London and now lives near Richmond Park with her partner and two daughters. A theatre critic for The Guardian! she goes to the theatre five or six nights a week! which should leave no time for writing books at all. Before she became a journalist! Lyn was a tea lady! a waitress and sold advertising space for a magazine called Sludge. Her ambitions are to learn to tap dance and walk the high wire! but it may have to be the low wire as she is a bit scared of heights! Klappentext Olivia is thrilled. She's been invited to perform her amazing tightrope act in New York. She can't wait to tell her friends at the Swan Academy of Theatre and Dance. But Tom and Georgia have news of their own and they're forced to make a terrible choice. A huge rift opens up between them and Olivia isn't sure anything will ever be the same again. To forget her friends' betrayal, she loses herself in learning the trapeze. At least when she's flying through the air, she can keep her hopes and dreams alive. But without her friends, what's to stop everything from crashing down to earth?After a few seconds, she pulled herself upwards again, stood on the trapeze and swung higher. She felt utterly exhilarated. She sat down again on the bar, and when the trapeze reached its peak, she somersaulted backwards, fell momentarily through space and then caught the bar with her ankles. She swung upside down like a beautiful bat, before using the momentum to swing herself back on to her feet again. She pushed harder so that the trapeze reached another peak, and she was poised to repeat her previous feat, counting the beats in her head because success was all in the timing, when the door to the hall was flung open. "Liv!" cried Tom. Zusammenfassung Olivia has been invited to New York to perform her innovative Shakespeare on the highwire! She's thrilled and can't wait to tell her friends. But they have news of their own! news which devastates Olivia and leads to a terrible rift. ...
