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The Ballroom
- Author
- Anna Hope
- Narrator
- Daniel Weyman
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Publish Date
- 11 February 2016
- Run Time
- 9 hours 58 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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What to expect
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
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Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read
Dinah Jefferies, author of THE TEA-PLANTER'S WIFE
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A British version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Moving. Fascinating
Times
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An unsentimental and affecting story
Sunday Times
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Compelling, elegant and insightful.
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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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An original, brilliant, evocative novel
Chris Cleave
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A heartbreaking story of how love can flourish in the darkest of times
Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Bookseller
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Part social commentary, part mystery and part dangerous liaison, this poignant story casts an unflinching gaze at the historic treatment of mental health disorders.
Financial Times
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Such a magnificent setting definitely demands a story that delivers, all guns blazing. It does, and then some . . . Fiction at it’s finest.
Irish Independent
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Beautiful
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Details
- Author
- Anna Hope
- Narrator
- Daniel Weyman
- Duration
- 9 hours 58 minutes
- Release Date
- 11 February 2016
- ISBN
- 9781473510876
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Historical romance, Fiction: gothic, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Narrative theme: health and illness
Synopsis
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 apartby high walls and barred windows,there is a ballroom vast and beautiful.For one bright evening every weekthey come together and dance.When John and Ella meetIt is a dance that will changetwo 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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