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Learned by Heart

By Donoghue, Emma

Read by Arserio, Shiromi

8.50 hrs • 8 CDs • Unabridged

Genre: FICTION  /  GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION  /  ROMANCE

Release Date: 09/01/2023

© 2023 by Little Brown & Co

ISBN No : 9781668629383

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Based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, Learned by Heart is a heartbreakingly gorgeous novel from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder.
 
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.

"Donoghue’s affection for the savvy, strange Lister is obvious, and the author makes her teenage couple’s partnership both deeply serious and wonderfully naive...but the reader knows from the first page that their infatuation won’t last, and the novel is ultimately a tender, sad account of first love"―Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic

"...unabashedly romantic, dreamlike....a wonderfully rich portrait of boarding school life, both a mirror of the outside world’s social hierarchies and a hothouse of complex interactions among girls striving to become women. As always, her narrative is grounded in sharp observation, strong characters, and nice period detail...a treat for her many fans."―
Kirkus Reviews

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