The Ballroom Av Anna Hope

<p><b>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.</b> <br><br><b>''Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read'' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of <i>The Tea-Planter''s Wife</i><br></b><br>''<b>Compelling, elegant, insightful'' <i>OBSERVER</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM tells a <b>rivetting</b> tale of <b>dangerous</b> obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which. It is a <b>love story</b> like no other.<br><br>*****************************************<br><br>Praise for Anna Hope''s <i>The Ballroom:</i><br><br>''<b>Beautifully wrought, tender, heartbreaking'' <i>Sunday Express 5/5</i></b><br><b><br>''Moving, fascinating'' <i>Times</i></b><br><b><br>''A tender and absorbing love story'' <i>Daily Mail</i></b><br><br><b><i>''</i>Unsentimental and affecting'' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>''Exquisitely good'' <i>Metro</i></b><br><br><b>''Absolutely fantastic . . . I''m in real awe of her writing'' ELIZABETH MACNEAL, author of <i>The Doll Factory</i><br>______________</b></p>