Anglais The ballroom

Anna Hope

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A RICHARD AND 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 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 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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Categories : Littérature > Romans & Nouvelles


  • Authors

    Anna Hope

  • Publisher

    Black Swan

  • Distributeur

    Side

  • Publication date

    01/09/2016

  • EAN

    9780552779470

  • Availablity

    Available

  • Height

    19.7 cm

  • Width

    12.7 cm

  • Thickness

    2.2 cm

  • Item weight

    245 g

  • Support principal

    Poche

  • Dewey

    420

Anna Hope

  • Naissance : 2-12-1974
  • Age : 51 ans
  • Country : Royaume Uni
  • Language : Anglais

Anna Hope est née en 1974 à Manchester. Après des études d'Art dramatique entre Londres et Oxford elle vit aujourd'hui dans le Sussex. Ses trois premiers romans, Le chagrin des vivants, La salle de bal (Grand Prix des lectrices de ELLE 2018) et Nos espérances ont été publiés aux Éditions Gallimard.

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