
A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK AUTUMN 2016 ' Absolutely heart-breaking One of the best books I've ever read' DINAH JEFFERIES author of The Tea-Planter's Wife' Compelling elegant & insightful' Observer' Beautifully wrought tender heartbreaking' Sunday Express 55' Moving fascinating' Times'A tender & absorbing love story' Daily Mail' Unsentimental & affecting' Sunday Times' Exquisitely good' Metro 1911 Inside an asylum at the edge of the Yorkshire moorswhere men & women are kept apartby high walls & barred windowsthere is a ballroom vast & beautiful For one bright evening every weekthey come together & dance When John & Ella meet It is a dance that will changetwo 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 & sanity & of who gets to decide which is which