The Mad Women's Ball is Victoria Mas's debut novel. It has won several prizes in France (including the Prix Stanislas and Prix Renaudot des Lyceens) and was the bestselling debut of the year. Victoria has worked in film in the United States, where she lived for eight years. She graduated from the Sorbonne in Contemporary Literature.The Mad Women's Ball is now an Amazon Prime Video Original Film starring Melanie Laurent and Lou de Lou ge.
[Victoria Mas's]... portrait of women who were unfairly banished to
asylums often because they did not fit into the straightjacket of
19th-century society is moving... beautifully drawn.
*THE TIMES*
THE MAD WOMEN'S BALL is a darkly sumptuous tale of wicked
spectacle, wild injustice and the insuppressible strength of women.
Mas brings the world of La Salpêtrière to life with passion and
fury, unveiling a hypnotic theatre that is as moving as it is
macabre.
*Emma Stonex, Sunday Times bestselling author of The
Lamplighters*
[An] essential story of women resisting the unjust exertion of male
power.
*SUNDAY TIMES*
In this darkly delightful Gothic treasure, Mas explores grief,
trauma and sisterhood behind the walls of Paris' infamous
Salpetriere hospital.
*PAULA HAWKINS, Sunday Times bestselling author of A SLOW FIRE
BURNING and THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN*
Elegantly written, Victoria Mas's slender, potent debut celebrates
sisterhood, while also exposing the corrupt powers of the
patriarchy at home and in the wider world.
*DAILY MAIL*
Enthralling and wonderfully imagined... written with terrific verve
and sympathy.
*LITERARY REVIEW*
A deftly woven tale of hope and pain, judgement and redemption,
cruelty and kindness. Utterly captivating and profoundly affecting,
the story of The Salpêtrière lingers long in the mind after the
stunning conclusion. I loved it.
*Miranda Dickinson*
A beautifully written debut set in Paris in 1885, Victoria Mas'
characters come to life within a sentence while her storytelling
compels you to turn the page. I loved The Mad Women's Ball and have
absolutely no doubt it will be one of my favourite novels of
2021.
*AJ PEARCE, author of DEAR MRS BIRD*
'Beautifully written and captures the world so well. A delight to
read.'
*Renee Knight*
A gothic, feminist book ...so cinematic it is already being turned
into a film...it evokes the Brontës, with its dormitories, its
phials and its ghosts. But thematically, it is bang up to date.
*BIG ISSUE*
The Mad Women's Ball is as lush on the inside as it is on the
outside! It's richly immersive, taking us right into the heart of
nineteenth-century Paris. From Genevieve, Eugenie and the women of
Salpêtrière we learn what it is that keeps women locked up - and
the extraordinary ways in which they might escape.
*Shelley Harris, author of Jubilee*
'Enter the dance of this little masterpiece and let yourself be
dazzled. Assured of hitting the bestseller lists'
*THE PARISIAN*
A well-written historical novel... book groups will thoroughly
engage with the plot and characters.
*NB Magazine*
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