Learned By Heart

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Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize.The heartbreaking story of the love of two women Anne Lister, the reallife 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 ObserverIn 1805, at a boarding school in York, two fourteenyearold 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.