As a young girl, Nina s parents agree for her to go to St Petersburg to study ballet under the patronage of Dimitri Gogol a wealthy and influential balletomane. She finds happiness and hard work in a strange city, but when War and Revolution loom, Nina accepts an offer of marriage from a titled admirer and the opportunity to seek asylum abroad. So begins Nina s Odyssey, a quest for security and fulfilment that takes Nina from Europe, across the Atlantic to America, And finally to the other side of the world To a life in Australia. Nina s Odyssey is a novel of relationships shadowed by loss, and of a life well lived. A life from which Nina looks back upon the rewards, and the price, Of breaking free from the past During turbulent times.