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The new novel from the acclaimed author of WAKE - a story of love and madness at the brink of the Great War.

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A RICHARD AND JUDY BOOK CLUB PICK

´Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I´ve ever read´ DINAH JEFFERIES, author of The Tea-Planter´s Wife

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.

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´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
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"Absolutely heart-breaking. One of the best books I´ve ever read" Dinah Jefferies, author of THE TEA-PLANTER´S WIFE

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ANNA HOPE studied at Oxford University and RADA. She is the internationally prizewinning and bestselling author of Wake and The Ballroom. Her contemporary fiction debut, Expectation, explores themes of love, lust, motherhood, and feminism, while asking the greater question of what defines a generation. She lives in Sussex with her husband and young daughter.

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