The unputdownable historical novel by the acclaimed and bestselling author of WAKE and EXPECTATION: a devastating story of love and madness at the brink of the Great War.

Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife

Compelling, elegant, insightful OBSERVER

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 tells a riveting tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which. It is a love story like no other.

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Praise for Anna Hope's The Ballroom:

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

Absolutely fantastic . . . I’m in real awe of her writing ELIZABETH MACNEAL, author of The Doll Factory

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