Miss Mckirdys Daughters Kinghorn by BarbaraKinghorn Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1995 by Bantam Doubleday Dell ISBN-13: 978-0-552-99637-2, ISBN: 0-552-99637-8
"Miss McKirdy had three daughters - one of them Barbara Kinghorn - and she taught them Scottish dancing at a convent school in South Africa. She made sure her daughters danced well and they won prizes at the Highland Games in Edinburgh. Barbara grew up dealing not only with her mother's obsession with dancing, but her father's alcoholism, one sister's slow descent into madness and another's death from cancer. This was lived out against a ..."