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The ballroomAnna Hope

The ballroom

2016334 pages
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"1911: Inside an asylum on 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 during the heat wave in the summer of 1911 at the end of the Edwardian era, this is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and the delicate balance between the two"--

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2 editions
  • Other · English · 2016
    349 pages · 9780857521965
  • Other · English · 2016
    Random House · 320 pages · 9780812995152
Man-woman relationshipsAsylumsFictionHistoryNew York Times reviewedFiction, historical, generalEngland, fictionFiction, psychological