The Ballroom

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. John Mulligan is a chronic patient, frozen with grief since the death of his child. It is in the ornate ballroom at the centre of the asylum 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.