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In her second historical novel, Hope (Wake) vividly evokes a claustrophobic feeling of both physical and psychological confinement. Men and women are only permitted to meet once a week at the Sharston Asylum in 1911 Yorkshire, in the ornate ballroom where the asylum staff put on lively Friday night dances for their restless patients. Former factory girl Ella Fay and melancholic Irishman John Mulligan pursue th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More