A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AUTUMN 2016
'Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books Ive ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES, author ofThe 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.
