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Learned by Heart
A Historical Fiction Novel by Emma Donoghue
Subgenres:
- LGBTQ+ Romance,
- Boarding School,
- 19th Century England
This book is for you if you're into...
- Forbidden love between girls at a 19th century boarding school
- Historical fiction rooted in real secret journals and hidden lives
- Emotionally intense stories of passion and heartbreak
“A wrenching love story” based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York.
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.
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