The Ballroom

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By the acclaimed author of WAKE:

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.

Critics Review

  • Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read

    Dinah Jefferies, author of THE TEA-PLANTER'S WIFE

  • A British version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Moving. Fascinating

    Times

  • An unsentimental and affecting story

    Sunday Times

  • Compelling, elegant and insightful.

    Observer

  • In this deeply moving book, Hope reminds us that behind everyone’s facade lies something waiting to be rent free

    Irish Times

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