The Ballroom - Softcover

Hope, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552779474 ISBN 13: 9780552779470

Verlag: Transworld, 2016

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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AUTUMN 2016 'Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I've ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife'Compelling, elegant and insightful' Observer'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' Metro1911: Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moors,where men and women are kept apartby high walls and barred windows,there is a ballroom vast and beautiful. For one bright evening every weekthey come together and dance., When John and Ella meetIt is a dance that will changetwo lives forever. Set over the heatwave summer of 1911, the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM is a historical love story. It tells a page-turning tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.

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"Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I’ve ever read" (Dinah Jefferies, author of THE TEA-PLANTER'S WIFE)

"A British version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. Moving. Fascinating" (Times)

"An unsentimental and affecting story" (Sunday Times)

"Compelling, elegant and insightful." (Observer)

"In this deeply moving book, Hope reminds us that behind everyone’s facade lies something waiting to be rent free" (Irish Times)

"An original, brilliant, evocative novel" (Chris Cleave)

"A heartbreaking story of how love can flourish in the darkest of times" (Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Bookseller)

"Part social commentary, part mystery and part dangerous liaison, this poignant story casts an unflinching gaze at the historic treatment of mental health disorders." (Financial Times)

"Such a magnificent setting definitely demands a story that delivers, all guns blazing. It does, and then some . . . Fiction at it’s finest." (Irish Independent)

"Beautiful" (Stylist)

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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK

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

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 is a historical love story. It tells a page-turning tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.

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'Compelling, elegant and insightful' Observer

'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
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• Verlag: Transworld
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0552779474
• ISBN 13: 9780552779470
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 352