The Ballroom
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Daniel Weyman
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Anna Hope
About this listen
By the acclaimed author of Wake: Where love is your only escape....
Nineteen-eleven: 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 tale of unlikely love and dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which.
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- Helena
- 23-02-17
Captivating.
Thank you for this moving and educating novel. A well researched, precise piece of work that has touched me and enlightened me.
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- Nina
- 26-04-16
excellent book.
I really enjoyed listening to The Ballroom. very emotional at times and engaging throughout. it does leave the reader to ponder on the ending for th3 characters.
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- Rose
- 16-12-16
And here is the proof
I have always held the opinion that the second world war would never have happened if Hitler had been less ambitious and the estermination of the Jews would have gone on unabated and even conconed by some parts of the free world. This book is the proof since it is set in 1911 just at the point when parliament was considering the feeble-minded act and wondering whether compulsory sterilization might halt the spread of the contagion of being feeble-minded thus creating in their minds at least a superior race. This had the support apparently of home secretary Churchill who was also responsible for the bombing of Coventry or at least letting it happen but that's another story entirely.
The book is essentially a tragic love story set against the backdrop of a lunatic asylum and against all odds. It starts in a ballroom and ends with the escape of John and the release of Ella. It's corny and full of steriotypes and in some places it's predictable. 'Said' is repeated too often but that's become the norm and it's not the worst example I've ever come across. I think though it is very unlilely that the illigitimate daughter of an insane mill worker in the early twentieth century would have received the kind of education that would have turned ehr in to a teacher therefore I cannot give it five stars.
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- carol
- 29-08-18
Excellent
I loved this book, it is beautifully written and beautifully preformed. I couldn't put it down.
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- Jilly
- 31-08-19
Brilliant story & narrator
I loved this book & my favourite narrator... I didn’t want it to end !
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- Amazon Customer
- 26-02-20
captivating story that had me gripped to the end
I really enjoyed this, even though it was heartbreaking and distressing at times. beautiful Ending.
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- Ozzieboy
- 25-10-16
Brilliant book
I loved the story, it took you through so many emotions and now I have finished it I am really missing the characters
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-06-17
A gripping storyline. Unexpected historical facts.
A gripping storyline. Unexpected historical facts. Worrying how close some people can come to damaging the human race. Highly recommend you read it.
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- Me
- 08-05-16
insight to Eugenics
Enjoyed the history behind the story and engaged with all characters even shouting out loud at some of the things the Dr did ! Well read too
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- Sue
- 16-12-16
Beautifully read
I absolutely loved this book. An unusual love story set in an asylum back in 1911. The reader, Daniel Weyman, bought the characters to life and at points I was almost holding my breathe to listen.
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