The Ballroom

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-Planters Wife

Compelling, elegant, insightfulOBSERVER

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 Hopes The Ballroom:

Beautifully wrought, tender, heartbreakingSunday Express 5/5

Moving, fascinatingTimes

A tender and absorbing love storyDaily Mail

Unsentimental and affectingSunday Times

Exquisitely goodMetro

Absolutely fantastic . . . Im in real awe of her writing ELIZABETH MACNEAL, author of The Doll Factory
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