<P> Once in London, the video tape of the narrator dancing provocatively with Tracey is released online by Tracey and Aimee manages to smooth over the adoption scandal by having the parents of her adopted child come forward and say they are happy . </P> <P> The narrator decides to move back in with her mother but discovers that she is in hospice care . She also discovers that Tracey has been continuing to send harassing emails to her mother throughout her illness . Nevertheless, the last time the narrator and her mother meet, the narrator's mother begs her to adopt Tracey's children so that they will be taken care of properly . The narrator decides that rather than adopt or ignore them she will seek out a middle ground . </P> <P> The book ends on the day her mother dies when, instead of going to see her mother at the hospice, she goes to Tracey's flat and sees her and her children dancing together . </P> <P> The novel references numerous Hollywood musicals as the unnamed narrator is obsessed with them as a child . It takes its title from the 1936 George Stevens movie Swing Time starring Fred Astaire and specifically references the "Bojangles of Harlem sequence" in which Astaire sports blackface . Jeni Le Gon becomes an icon for the narrator and Tracey after they see her dancing in Ali Baba Goes to Town . </P>

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