Dancing on Coral is a Miles Franklin Award-winning novel by Australian author Glenda Adams.

[1][2] Lark Watter is desperate to leave behind her life in suburban Sydney in the 1960s.

At university she meets an American, Tom Brown, and travels with him across the Pacific by freighter to a new life in the USA.

Marion Halligan, in The Canberra Times referred to the novel as a "fine farce" and noted that the author "seems rather more interested in the episodes than the essentials; or maybe she sees herself as hiding the essentials in order to make her readers work at discovery.

"[3] Parts of this novel first appeared in Lies and Stories and The Hottest Night of the Century.