Adding to the already moving,richly told and gripping collection of historical fiction from Emma Donoghue,Learned By Heart is the breathtaking story of two young girls on the margins of life,forging a connection that will last forever.
Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives,and the Slope,with its curtains drawn wide,is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers,not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping on the other side of the box room. The question Eliza's been needing to ask swells like a great berry in her mouth,and all at once she's not scared to let it out,not scared at all,not scared of anything...
In 1805 fourteen-year-old Eliza Raine is a school girl at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father,Eliza was banished to this unfamiliar country as a little girl. When she first stepped off the King George in Kent,Eliza was accompanied by her older sister,Jane,but now she boards alone at the Manor,with no one left to claim her. She spends her days avoiding the attention of her fellow pupils until,one day,a fearless and charismatic new student arrives at the school. The two girls are immediately thrown together and soon Eliza's life is turned inside out by this strange and curious young woman.
Learned by Heart,Emma Donoghue's mesmerising new novel,tells the heartbreaking story of the tangled lives of two women whose intense,and unlikely,relationship will change them for ever.
Publisher: Pan MacmillanISBN: 9781035017768Number of pages: 336Weight: 446 gDimensions: 224 x 145 x 34 mm
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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 odditiesA master of plotA writer of great vitality and generosityEmma 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 togetherEmma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemyDonoghue excels in creating not just a world but a worldview that is far removed from our ownDonoghue is a superb stylist - her prose is stirring and tenderShe 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 she's unable to write a line you don't believe
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