Dancing On Snowflakes Author:Malcolm MacDonald Katarina O'Barry, banished by her Irish-Swedish parents from their Dublin home to relations in Stockholm to curb her infatuation with an unsuitable suitor, makes a successful bid for independence and has some incredible adventures along the way. With the help of some newfound gentlemen friends, she secures a position in a hotel as a language ins... more »tructor. For the sake of appearances, she allows an aging duchess to share her quarters. This chaperone with a most entertaining memory offers sage, though sometimes ribald, advice. Katarina's passion for self-reliance widens her romantic choices, and she flirts with a visiting English novelist, a Swedish count, an assistant manager of the hotel, and an incredibly handsome, though mad, socialist revolutionary. Macdonald has chosen a glorious setting, nineteenth-century Stockholm on the brink of the International Exhibition, for some convention-defying fiction.« less