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Learned by heart / Emma Donoghue.

Donoghue, Emma, 1969- (author.).

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"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 age"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781443470315 (hardcover)
  • Physical Description: 323 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First Canadian edition.
  • Publisher: Toronto, ON : Harper Avenue, [2023]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.

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Subject: Lister, Anne, 1791-1840 > Fiction.
Raine, Eliza, 1791-1860 > Fiction.
Boarding schools > Fiction.
Mental illness > Fiction.
Racially mixed people > Fiction.
York (England) > History > 19th century > Fiction.
Genre: Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Novels.

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  • HARPERCOLL

    A heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in nineteenth century York, from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder 

    Finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize

    National Bestseller

    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.

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