Cover of The ballroom

Book 2016

The ballroom

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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"--