Learned By Heart: From the award-winning author of Room

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The heartbreaking story of the love of two women - Anne Lister, the real-life inspiration behind Gentleman Jack, and her first love, Eliza Raine - from the bestselling author of Room and The Wonder. 'Donoghue conjures a whole new world' - The Observer In 1805, at a boarding school in York, two fourteen-year-old girls first meet. Eliza Raine, the orphan daughter of an Indian mother, keeps herself apart from the other girls, tired of being picked out for being different. Anne Lister, a gifted troublemaker, is determined to conquer the world, refusing to bow to society's expectations of what a woman can do. As they fall in love, the connection they forge will remain with them for the rest of their lives. Full of passion and heartbreak, evocative and wholly unique, Learned by Heart is the dazzling novel from acclaimed author Emma Donoghue.

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Her touch is so light and exuberantly inventive, her insight at once so forensic and intimate, her people so ordinary even in their oddities * The Guardian *
A master of plot * Time *
A writer of great vitality and generosity * The New Yorker *
Emma Donoghue is a genius of compassion. With her, the ethical imagination is always paramount. In our fractured world she brings a great sense of repair to us all. Her stories bind us back together -- Colum McCann, internationally bestselling author of Let the Great World Spin
Emma Donoghues writing is superb alchemy -- Audrey Niffenegger, author of The Time Travelers Wife
Donoghue excels in creating not just a world but a worldview that is far removed from our own * The Financial Times *
Donoghue is a superb stylist her prose is stirring and tender * The Sunday Times *
She can do everything: be funny, be moving, be unflinching yet sensitive, write beautifully nuanced sentences and utterly gripping stories. She can write powerful historical fiction and be absolutely contemporary. And shes unable to write a line you don't believe -- Joseph OConnor, author of Star of the Sea

Author Bio

Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical, most recently Haven), as well as drama for screen and stage. Room was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her 2016 novel The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh (Netflix, 2022). For more information, visit www.emmadonoghue.com.