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Read [Anna Hope Book] * The Ballroom Online ! PDF eBook or Kindle ePUB free. The Ballroom Ella knows she is not mad, but she might have to learn to play the game before she can make a true bid for freedom. It is in the ornate ballroom at the centre of the asylum, where the male and female patients are allowed to gather every Friday evening to dance, that Ella and John begin a tentative, secret correspondence that will have shattering consequences, as love and the possibility of redemption are set against one ambitious doctor's eagerness to make his mark in the burgeoning field of eug
| Title | : | The Ballroom |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.28 (981 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0771039115 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-12-04 |
| Language | : | English |
Follow her on Twitter @Anna_Hope. The author lives in London, UK. Hope's second novel, The Ballroom, is inspired by the true story of her great-great-grandfather who emigrated from Ireland. in creative writing at Birkbeck, University of London. . ANNA HOPE studied English at Oxford, attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and then received an M.A. She lives in London. Her first novel, Wake, was a
Ella knows she is not mad, but she might have to learn to play the game before she can make a true bid for freedom. It is in the ornate ballroom at the centre of the asylum, where the male and female patients are allowed to gather every Friday evening to dance, that Ella and John begin a tentative, secret correspondence that will have shattering consequences, as love and the possibility of redemption are set against one ambitious doctor's eagerness to make his mark in the burgeoning field of eugenics, at all costs. John Mulligan is a chronic patient, frozen with grief since the death of his child, but when Ella runs towards him one morning in an attempt to escape the place where he has found refuge, everything changes. From the internationally acclaimed author of Wake comes a hau
"Four Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Enjoyed this book. A beautiful love story.. Wonderfully told! I have always held a fascination for asylums of old, those secret places where the mentally afflicted were housed away from society. The Ballroom by Anna Hope gave me a glimpse inside such a place. The asylum is set near the Yorshire moors and takes place in the early 1900's. Wonderful descriptions and utterly fascinating characters made this story truly bloom.Sharston . Lynn Mccarthy said good. This story is set in an asylum where Ella is an inmate all she did was break a window she is not mad.John is also in the asylum but women and men are segregated but once a week on a Friday they get to met up in the Ballroom for a dance.There is also Charles Fuller the doctor who has his own demons and Clem an educated girl whose family sent her there as a private patien
I loved it." -- Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry • "A tender and timely novel, full of compassion and quiet insight. The author gives us a moving and original glimpse into the haunted peace after the Great War, her characters drawn by the gravity of the unmarked, the unknown and perhaps, finally, the unhoped for." -- Chris Cleave, author of Little Bee. Praise for Wake: • "A masterclass in historical fiction, the like of which, outside the pages of a Sarah Waters novel, one rar
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