The Ballroom Hope Anna

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' OBSERVER1911: 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.*****************************************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______________