Book 2016
The ballroom
4.01 2 readers shelved it
- Publisher
- Random House
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Man-woman relationships
- Asylums
- Fiction
- History
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, historical, general
- England, fiction
- Fiction, psychological
"1911: Inside an asylum on 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 during the heat wave in the summer of 1911 at the end of the Edwardian era, this is a tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and the delicate balance between the two"--