Ebook {Epub PDF} The Ballroom by Anna Hope

As mentioned in Anna Hope's historical novel The Ballroom, just over years ago in , London hosted the first International Eugenics Conference, an event attended by people who believed in the prevention of those deemed inferior – whom they labeled 'feeble-minded' – from reproducing. It was a categorization that referred more to their social class and wealth than intellectual ability. And "The Ballroom" is another fine novel, just not quite as fine. The book is set in the early days of the 20th century in a psychiatric asylum, which Hope based /5().  · “Part historical novel and part romance, The Ballroom paints an incredibly rich portrait of the mentally stable forced to live in an asylum. [Anna] Hope transports readers inside the asylum, to feel the thick humidity of the stale summer air of the day room, Pages:

Set over the heatwave summer of , the end of the Edwardian era, THE BALLROOM tells a rivetting tale of dangerous obsession, of madness and sanity, and of who gets to decide which is which. It is a love story like no other. ***** Praise for Anna Hope's The Ballroom: 'Beautifully wrought, tender, heartbreaking' Sunday Express 5/5 'Moving. The Ballroom is an extraordinary book. Anna Hope has used the story of her own great-great-grandfather and his terrible time in Menston - re-named here as Sharston Asylum - to tell us about a disgraceful, even disgusting, interval in early 20th Century British social history. "The Ballroom has all the intensity and lyricism of [Anna] Hope's debut, Wake. At its heart is a tender and absorbing love story."—Daily Mail "Compelling and masterful Anna Hope has proven once again that she is a luminary in historical fiction She delivers profound, poignant narratives that stir the emotions.

The Ballroom by Anna Hope review: far from the madhouse crowd. In , an Irish man called John Mullarkey was admitted to a lunatic asylum in the West Riding of Yorkshire. He had been transferred. And "The Ballroom" is another fine novel, just not quite as fine. The book is set in the early days of the 20th century in a psychiatric asylum, which Hope based on an actual asylum that had been in operation at the time. The Ballroom by Anna Hope review – insightful and touching A poignant love story set in a lunatic asylum in the early s has subtle resonances today Anna Hope: a skilful deconstruction of our.