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She ended it on the 21st of February, 1991, as Prima Ballerina Assoluta, Dame of the British Empire and the most legendary dancer since Pavlova.

Margot Fonteyn began life on the 18th of May, 1919 in Reigate, Surrey, as plain Peggy Hookham. Based on more than ten years of research and lavishly illustrated with beautiful and evocative photographs, Margot Fonteyn is an exquisite biography that is supremely worthy of its alluring subject. Balletomanes and readers of biography alike will applaud Daneman's vivid, insightful, and highly entertaining work. Daneman reflects on Fonteyn's lyricism and limpid purity of line, so potent with theatrical moment that even film cannot capture it and the world of ballet from the birth of British national ballet to Rudolf Nureyev, her final partner and rumored lover. This definitive biography thrillingly chronicles Fonteyn's early life and loves in bohemian '30s and '40s London her balletic Svengali, Frederick Ashton: her conquest of New York with the Sadler's Wells Ballet and her jet-set years with the likes of Aristole Onassis. Meredith Daneman, a novelist and a former dancer, shares the fascinating story of Peggy Hookham, a little girl from suburban England who grew up to become a dame of the British Empire and the most famous ballerina in the world.

Yet until now, the complete story of her life has remained untold. Margot Fonteyn's legend has touched every ballet dancer who has come after her, and her genius endures in the memory of anyone who saw her dance.