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Title: The Ballroom. Author: Anna Hope. Publisher: Random House. Format: Hardcover historical novel with dust jacket. Language: English. Genre/Subject: Historical fiction, literary romance, psychological fiction, love stories. Narrative type: Full-length fiction novel. Setting and period: Early twentieth-century England, centered on Sharston Asylum on the Yorkshire moors around 1911. Plot and themes: Follows patients Ella Fay and John Mulligan and asylum doctor Charles Fuller, whose lives cross during weekly dances held in the institution's grand ballroom, exploring longing, freedom, class, and the boundaries between sanity and madness. Character-driven, emotionally resonant Edition and printing: First United States Edition, stated First Edition with full number line. Ex-library copy from the Hawaii State Public Library System with original illustrated dust jacket. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper. ISBN-13: 978-0-8129-9515-2. EAN: 9780812995152.