The unputdownable historical novel by the acclaimed and bestselling author of WAKE and EXPECTATION: a devastating story of love and madness at the brink of the Great War. ''Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books Ive ever read'' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter''s Wife ''Compelling, elegant, insightful'' OBSERVER 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 beautifulFor 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 tells a rivetting tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is whichIt is a love story like no other. ***************************************** Praise for Anna Hope''s The Ballroom: ''Beautifully wrought, tender, heartbreaking'' S