The ballroom : a novel / Anna Hope.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hope, Anna, 1974- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Asylums.

England--Yorkshire.

England.

Asylums--Fiction.

England--Fiction.

Asylums--England--Yorkshire--Fiction.

Yorkshire (England)--Fiction.

Yorkshire (England).

Romance fiction.

Genre:

Fiction.

Love stories.

Historical fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Romance fiction.

Physical Description:

320 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First United States edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, [2016]

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.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780812995152

0812995155

OCLC:

942609193