The Ballroom (häftad, eng)

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-Planter''s Wife

''Compelling, elegant, insightful'' OBSERVER

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 beautifulFor 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 whichIt is a love story like no other.

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Praise for Anna Hope''s The Ballroom:

''Beautifully wrought, tender, heartbreaking'' Sunday Express 5/5

''Moving, fascinating'' Times

''A tender and absorbing love story'' Daily Mail

''Unsentimental and affecting'' Sunday Times

''Exquisitely good'' Metro

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