After reading a couple of romance novels to get The Midwife out of my system, I dove back into my to-read pile and came up with The Ballroom by Anna Hope. This book has been on my to-read list since I first read a review of it in one of the journals that’s always floating around my colleague’s offic...
I received a copy of this book from the publishers and this is my honest opinion of the book.Ella Fay finds herself in Sharston Asylum, locked away for a minor incident. Her first instinct is to flee, then to fight. She quickly realises that biding her time may be the best way of surviving. In time ...
The Ballroom is set in 1911 and tells the emotional story of a few characters and their lives inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors. The men and woman are kept apart, except for one night a week (if they’re lucky), when they all get together in the ballroom for a dance.I found this to ...
Having loved Anna Hope's debut novel Wake I was really looking forward to reading her second novel The Ballroom.It is set in 1911 at Sharston Asylum on the Yorkshire moors. Charles is a doctor who has an interest in music. He gets a position there and his wish is to improve the lives of the patients...
This book was perfectly lovely. Unlike other, recent books set during WWI (ahem, Daughters of Mars), it didn't attempt to be a sweeping epic; instead it focused on three women and their lives in the war's aftermath. Evelyn is embittered by the loss of her fiance and now spends her days working in th...
World War I tends to get short shrift in fiction. It was not the war to end all wars. Its’ battles did not span the globe, and it did not involve worldwide alliances and partnerships. The battles themselves involved a one-war-only battle strategy that everyone agrees was an unmitigated failure that ...
"Wake" details three lives affected by the November 11th 1920 anniversary of Armistice Day, and the official ceremony of the burial of the Unknown Warrior. Three women (a young girl, a woman, and a mother) grieve the loss and hold a Wake for something, or someone, lost because of the Great War. Thro...
WW 1 is the new "IT" time period--this is the third fictional work I've read this year set during WW 1 and sadly the one I've enjoyed the least. Wake deals with the aftermath of the war and explores how a whole generation was cheated. These characters are not very likable and are certainly bitter...
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