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Imprint: Black Swan
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Published: 01/09/2016
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ISBN: 9780552779470
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 127mm
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Weight: 241g
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RRP: £8.99
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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK
'Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife
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 is a historical love story. It tells a page-turning tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.
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'Compelling, elegant and insightful' Observer
'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
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Published: 01/09/2016
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ISBN: 9780552779470
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Length: 352 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 127mm
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Weight: 241g
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RRP: £8.99
Reviews
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"Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read"
Dinah Jefferies, author of THE TEA-PLANTER'S WIFE
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"A British version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Moving. Fascinating"
Times
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"An unsentimental and affecting story"
Sunday Times
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"Compelling, elegant and insightful."
Observer
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"In this deeply moving book, Hope reminds us that behind everyone’s facade lies something waiting to be rent free"
Irish Times
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"An original, brilliant, evocative novel"
Chris Cleave
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"A heartbreaking story of how love can flourish in the darkest of times"
Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Bookseller
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"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
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"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
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"Beautiful"
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