Learned By Heart - From the award-winning author of Room
Verlag | Macmillan Publishers International |
Auflage | 2023 |
Seiten | 336 |
Format | 15,3 x 2,6 x 23,7 cm |
Trade Paperback | |
Gewicht | 418 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
EAN | 9781035017775 |
Bestell-Nr | 03501777UA |
The sensational new novel from the bestselling author of The Pull of the Stars and The Wonder.
Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Prize.
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.
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 beautiful and moving new historical novel from acclaimed author Emma Donoghue.
'A rich and spellbinding 19th-century story of forbidden love' - Independent
'D onoghue evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching.' - The Guardian
Rezension:
Donoghue's prose is beautiful and beautifully controlled. Simply and without a shred of sentimentality, she evokes a relationship that is convincing and exquisitely touching. The Guardian