The ballroom
Subtitle: a novel
By: Anna Hope
Edition: First United States edition.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780812995152
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Man-woman relationships; Asylums; Fiction
Description: "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"--