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  • CategoryFiction
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages320
  • Published2024
  • File size2.2 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9780063386679

Key ideas from the book

  • Venetia reflects on the dreams and choices she left behind while building a life around her husband.
  • Reviving the Phoenix Ballroom gives Venetia a meaningful project connected to her past as a dance instructor.
  • The ballroom’s community offers Venetia friendship and a sense of belonging.
  • The story explores the possibility of making a fresh start later in life.
  • The novel brings together contemporary fiction, family, romance, and friendship.

About The Phoenix Ballroom by Ruth Hogan

At seventy-four, wealthy widow Venetia Hargreaves is reconsidering the life she built around her late husband and the dance-school dream she set aside. Once a dance instructor, she remembers the Phoenix Ballroom as the place where she taught waltzes and tangos.

When Venetia buys the building, now used as a community centre and spiritualist church, she sets out to restore it. The effort brings her into a supportive, multigenerational community and gives her a chance to reshape her own life. Published in 2024, this contemporary novel will appeal to readers who enjoy stories about family, friendship, romance, and starting over.

About Ruth Hogan

Ruth Hogan is a British novelist whose fiction often brings together eccentric characters, family secrets and unexpected connections. Her debut, *The Keeper of Lost Things* (2017), centres on the stories attached to misplaced objects. Her other novels include *Queenie Malone’s Paradise Hotel*, *The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes* and *The Moon, the Stars and Madame Burova*. Across her work, Hogan returns to themes of loss, memory and the possibility of finding companionship and meaning in surprising…

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