If you're expecting another Idas Dans ('Ida's Dance'), this book isn't it. Which is understandable - the debut novel was near-perfect, and probably result of a mother pouring all of the raw love and grief she must've felt at the moment into the pages of the book. It would be too much to ask for her to write such a masterpiece again.

While Corwin's debut novel detailed her daughter's fight with leaukemia, Etter Dansen ('After the Dance') are the reflections of a bereaved mother, and her way back to a kind of new normality.

So again, while it's no second Idas Dans, Etter Dansen has its share of wisdom and wonderful reflection, and if you like Ida's Dance, it's well worth a read.