Learned by heart

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The sensational new novel from the bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and The Wonder.

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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 forever.

‘Emma Donoghue is a genius of compassion. In our fractured world she brings a great sense of repair to us all.’ – Colum McCann, internationally bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. The question Eliza’s been needing to ask swells like a great berry in her mouth, and all at once she’s not scared to let it out, not scared at all, not scared of anything . . .

In 1805 fourteen-year-old Eliza Raine is a schoolgirl at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, Eliza was banished from Madras to this unfamiliar country at the age of six. At the Manor School she keeps her head down and follows all the rules, until the arrival of a charismatic and fearless new student, Anne Lister. The two outsiders are thrown together and soon Eliza’s life is turned upside down by this remarkable young woman.

Learned by Heart, Emma Donoghue’s mesmerising new novel, tells the heartbreaking true story of two women whose unlikely relationship will change them for ever.

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Weight 0.418 kg
Dimensions 23.4 × 15.2 × 3 cm
Book_author

Donoghue, Emma

Publisher

Picador

Imprint

Picador

Cover

Paperback

Pages

336

Language

English

Edition

Export ed

Dewey

823.92 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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