{"product_id":"9780552779470","title":"The Ballroom","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): Hope, Anna \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 01\/09\/2016,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 352 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780552779470,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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 I’ve ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter's Wife'Compelling, elegant, insightful' OBSERVER1911: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet 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 which. It is a love story like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e*****************************************Praise for Anna Hope's The Ballroom:'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'Absolutely fantastic . . . I'm in real awe of her writing' ELIZABETH MACNEAL, author of The Doll Factory\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697763450924,"sku":"9780552779470","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780552779470.jpg?v=1722602978","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780552779470","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}