Title: The ballroom
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"--
Subjects: Man-woman relationships, Asylums, Fiction, History, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, England, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Historical, Literary, Psychological, Romance fiction
Places: Yorkshire (England), England, Yorkshire