Learned by Heart
Learned by Heart
Emma Donoghue
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ISBN: 9780316564434
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Publication Date: 8/29/23
Binding: Hardcover
Age Range: -
Grade Range: NA-NA
Series: ,
Pages:
Language: English
BISAC: Fiction, Historical, General, Friendship, Romance, Historical - Victorian, LGBTQ+ - Lesbian, LGBTQ+, Lesbian, and Literary
Related Subjects: Raine, Eliza, Boarding schools, Interpersonal relations, Lesbian teenagers, Lesbians, Racially mixed people, York (England), Social life and customs, 19th century, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, Lesbian fiction, Historical fiction, Biographical fiction, Romance fiction, Bildungsromans, and Lister, Anne
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From the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder, this novel is based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York.
"A wrenching love story." --Chris Bohjalian, The Washington Post Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister's five-million-word secret journal, Learned by Heart is the long-buried love story of Eliza Raine, an orphan heiress banished from India to England at age six, and Anne Lister, a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen. Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction by one of the world's greatest storytellers. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.