The DANCING TORTOISE is a cautionary tale based on one clear lesson that love like any vital area of our lives is a warfront where one is completely to blame and none is wholly innocent. The book explores in a most remarkable way the complex web of relationships that bind a modern family to its immediate peasant origins. It is a story of family ties, arranged marriage, social climbing and middle class pretensions superbly woven into a wonderful tapestry of extra-marital affairs and wife-abuse which lead almost to the destruction of a young family.