ISBN: 0316564451 9780316564458

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 300

<p><b>“A wrenching love story” (Chris Bohjalian, <i>The Washington Post</i>) based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply, and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th century York, from the bestselling author of <i>Room </i>and <i>The Wonder.</i></b></p> Drawing on years of investigation and Anne Lister’s five-million-word secret journal,<i> Learned by Heart </i>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.<br>  <br> Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, <i>Learned by Heart</i> 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.