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The Ballroom
Anna Hope
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Description for The Ballroom
Paperback. 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. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 244.
______________ A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK 'Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I've ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife 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 historical love story. It tells a page-turning tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which. ______________ 'Compelling, elegant and insightful' Observer '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 ______________
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780552779470
SKU
9780552779470
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Anna Hope
ANNA HOPE studied at Oxford University and RADA. She is the acclaimed author of Wake and The Ballroom. Her contemporary fiction debut, Expectation, explores themes of love, lust, motherhood, and feminism, while asking the greater question of what defines a generation. She lives in Sussex with her husband and young daughter.
Reviews for The Ballroom
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
An original, brilliant, evocative novel
Chris Cleave
A heartbreaking story of how love can flourish in the darkest of times
Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Bookseller
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
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
Beautiful
Stylist
An exquisite love story
Good Housekeeping
A terrifying, moving and uplifting story
February Hot Read
Woman and Home
A poignant against-the-odds love story
Glamour
Tender . . . Hope is the emotion that unspools the delicate connections between these brilliantly drawn characters
Psychologies Magazine
The Ballroom is a beautifully wrought novel, a tender, heartbreaking and insightful exploration of the longings that survive in the most inhospitable environments.
Sunday Express 5/5 stars
Magnificent...a luminary of historical fiction...writing history from the margins, the personal stories behind the era, she delivers profound, poignant stories that stir the emotions.
Press Association
All the intensity and lyricism of Hope's debut, Wake
Daily Mail
The Ballroom confirms her as a novelist of immense power...Exquisitely good. Sensitive, engrossing and highly recommended
Metro
The Ballroom is a beautiful, gripping, heart-wrenching, thought-provoking book. I was so enthralled, I read it in an evening, unwilling to put it down.
thewritesofwoman.wordpress.com
An atmospheric and thought provoking love story
bookslifeandeverything.blogspot.co.uk
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
An original, brilliant, evocative novel
Chris Cleave
A heartbreaking story of how love can flourish in the darkest of times
Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Bookseller
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
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
Beautiful
Stylist
An exquisite love story
Good Housekeeping
A terrifying, moving and uplifting story
February Hot Read
Woman and Home
A poignant against-the-odds love story
Glamour
Tender . . . Hope is the emotion that unspools the delicate connections between these brilliantly drawn characters
Psychologies Magazine
The Ballroom is a beautifully wrought novel, a tender, heartbreaking and insightful exploration of the longings that survive in the most inhospitable environments.
Sunday Express 5/5 stars
Magnificent...a luminary of historical fiction...writing history from the margins, the personal stories behind the era, she delivers profound, poignant stories that stir the emotions.
Press Association
All the intensity and lyricism of Hope's debut, Wake
Daily Mail
The Ballroom confirms her as a novelist of immense power...Exquisitely good. Sensitive, engrossing and highly recommended
Metro
The Ballroom is a beautiful, gripping, heart-wrenching, thought-provoking book. I was so enthralled, I read it in an evening, unwilling to put it down.
thewritesofwoman.wordpress.com
An atmospheric and thought provoking love story
bookslifeandeverything.blogspot.co.uk