The Ballroom
Where love is your only escape .... 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...
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Where love is your only escape ....
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 tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780857521965 (0857521969)
Publish date: 2016
Publisher: Doubleday
Edition language: English
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...
Beautifully written, thought provoking novel set in an Asylum.The Ballroom is a tale of unlikely love set in an Asylum on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors in 1911.Male and Female patients were segregated and the only time they came together was on Friday nights for the weekly dance.Churchill as a new...
9 years ago
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