MAN, I loved those books when I was a kid. I managed to find so many of them in bookshops - this was back in the dark ages when there was no internet, and I didn't really have the resources to ask the bookshops to order in (they were also in the city, well away from me, no car, no access to pick them up, etc - I was quite book deprived as a child, really!) or library access. However, I didn't find the last(?) one, where she marries the American, for years. I think my favourite part was how Elizabeth Ivory being her mother was kept this massive secret, and also the ballet about the fisherman's wife being the only televised version of her dancing. Otherwise I found Drina a total Mary Sue, even as a kid. However, the whole resistance from her grandmother and the reasons for it were well done.