The unputdownable historical novel by the acclaimed and bestselling author of WAKE and EXPECTATION: a devastating story of love and madness at the brink of the Great War.
'Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife
'Compelling, elegant, insightful' OBSERVER
1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors, where men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows, there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every week they come together and dance. When John and Ella meet it is a dance that will change two lives forever.
Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM tells a rivetting tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which. It is a love story like no other.
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Praise for Anna Hope's The Ballroom:
'Beautifully wrought, tender, heartbreaking' Sunday Express 5/5
'Moving, fascinating' Times
'A tender and absorbing love story' Daily Mail
'Unsentimental and affecting' Sunday Times
'Exquisitely good' Metro
'Absolutely fantastic . . . I'm in real awe of her writing' ELIZABETH MACNEAL, author of The Doll Factory
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Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd
ISBN: 9780552779470
Number of pages: 352
Weight: 241 g
Dimensions: 198 x 127 x 21 mm
Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read - Dinah Jefferies, author of THE TEA-PLANTER'S WIFE
A British version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Moving. Fascinating - Times
An unsentimental and affecting story - Sunday Times
Compelling, elegant and insightful. - Observer
In this deeply moving book, Hope reminds us that behind everyone’s facade lies something waiting to be rent free - Irish Times
An original, brilliant, evocative novel - Chris Cleave
A heartbreaking story of how love can flourish in the darkest of times - Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Bookseller
Part social commentary, part mystery and part dangerous liaison, this poignant story casts an unflinching gaze at the historic treatment of mental health disorders. - Financial Times
Such a magnificent setting definitely demands a story that delivers, all guns blazing. It does, and then some . . . Fiction at it’s finest. - Irish Independent
Beautiful - Stylist
I was a huge fan of Anna Hope’s debut Wake, and so was thrilled to receive an early copy of her second novel, The Ballroom. Once again, this author’s skill for weaving multiple perspectives into a taut and... More
It is 1911, on the edge of the Yorkshire moors stands the Sharston asylum and within its high walls there lies an elegant ballroom.
Anna Hope brings us The Ballroom, an absorbing, emotional and memorable love story....
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Anna Hope’s first novel, Wake, was one of the very many published in 2014 to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the Great War. I read a few of them, and a couple of the classics of the genre, but I have to... More
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