Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 01/09/2016
ISBN: 9780552779470
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 127mm
Weight: 241g
RRP: £8.99
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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Imprint: Black Swan
Published: 01/09/2016
ISBN: 9780552779470
Length: 352 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 127mm
Weight: 241g
RRP: £8.99
Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read
A British version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Moving. Fascinating
An unsentimental and affecting story
Compelling, elegant and insightful.
In this deeply moving book, Hope reminds us that behind everyone’s facade lies something waiting to be rent free
An original, brilliant, evocative novel
A heartbreaking story of how love can flourish in the darkest of times
Part social commentary, part mystery and part dangerous liaison, this poignant story casts an unflinching gaze at the historic treatment of mental health disorders.
Such a magnificent setting definitely demands a story that delivers, all guns blazing. It does, and then some . . . Fiction at it’s finest.
Beautiful