Learned By Heart

Adding to the already moving, richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue, Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life, forging a connection that will last a lifetime. In 1805, at boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-olds meet - an orphan heiress, sent from India to England at six, and a gifted troublemaker. Anne Lister would go on to be a gifted diarist, famous the world over. But in the early nineteenth century she met Eliza Raine, someone who would change her life for ever. Evocative, captivating and wholly unique, Learned By Heart is the dazzling new novel from acclaimed and bestselling author Emma Donoghue.

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Donoghue's prose is beautiful and beautifully controlled. Simply and without a shred of sentimentality, she evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching. The Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Emma Donoghue, Donoghue Emma
• Publisher: Picador Uk
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 24.08.2023
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives
• EAN: 9781035017775
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3501777-5
• Pages: 322
• Dimensions (packing): 15.2 x 23.4 x 2.5 cm
• Subjects: York, Coming of age, FICTION / Coming of Age, FICTION / Biographical, lesbian romance, FICTION / Romance / Multicultural & Interracial, Narrative theme: Coming of age, Romance: wholesome, Taboo, Boarding School, Anne Lister, Relating to lesbians, LGBTQIA+, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / Lesbian, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Queer Love, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Diaries, Eliza Raine