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Learned by Heart
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Emma Donoghue delivers a beautiful, extensively researched work of historical fiction based on the real-life love affair between Anne Lister and Eliza Raine. This is an unforgettable love story from a writer at the top of their game.
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 brillia...
“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 brillia...
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