The Ballroom

A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AUTUMN 2016. -Absolutely heart eaking. 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-. (Metro). 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.