The Ballroom
Author: Hope, Anna
ISBN: 9780552779470
Publisher: BLACK SWAN
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 197mm x 132mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The unputdownable historical novel from the acclaimed author of WAKE and EXPECTATION - a devastating story of love and madness at the brink of the Great War.
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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ISBN: 9780552779470
Publisher: BLACK SWAN
Year First Published: 2016
Pages: 352
Dimensions: 197mm x 132mm x 22mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The unputdownable historical novel from the acclaimed author of WAKE and EXPECTATION - a devastating story of love and madness at the brink of the Great War.
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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