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Author Hope, Anna, 1974- author.

Title The ballroom : a novel / Anna Hope.

Publication Info. New York : Random House, [2016]
©2016

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Location Call No. Public Note Status
 Davis Adult Fiction  FIC HOPE    CHECK SHELVES
Edition First United States edition.
Description 320 pages ; 25 cm
Content type text txt rdacontent
Format volume nc rdacarrier
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher.
1911. Inside Sharston Asylum on the edge of the Yorkshire moors, men and women are kept apart by high walls and barred windows. There is a ballroom, vast and beautiful, and for one bright evening every week the inmates come together and dance. When John and Ella meet they strike up a tenuous courtship. When one gets a chance to leave Sharston for good, John and Ella face a dilemma: whether to cling to familiar comforts or to confront a new world-- living apart, yet forever changed.
Subject Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
Asylums -- Fiction.
England -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Literary.
FICTION -- Psychological.
Asylums -- England -- Yorkshire -- Fiction.
Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
FICTION -- Historical.
Genre Love stories.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Romance fiction.
ISBN 9780812995152
0812995155