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The ballroom / Anna Hope.

by Hope, Anna, 1974-

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McClelland & Stewart, 2016.

Psychiatric hospital patients -- Fiction.

Mentally ill -- Fiction.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder -- Fiction.

Asylums -- Fiction.

Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.

Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction.

9780771039119 (trade pbk.)

351 p. ; 21 cm.

"Yorkshire, England, 1911: After a moment of defiance at the factory where she has worked since she was a child, Ella Fay finds herself an unwilling patient at the Sharston Asylum. 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. 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. 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."--From publisher.

Historical fiction.

Psychological fiction.

Literary fiction.

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