Learned By Heart

This heartbreaking book is a fictionalised account of a real relationship - that between Eliza Raine and Anne Lister (commonly known as "Gentleman Jack") as teenagers attending the Manor School for Young Ladies. Emma Donoghue plunges us into the secret feelings, desires, and actions of these two young women in the early 1800s in England, both social misfits who experience a deep and heartfelt bond. Dramatic and poignant, this story embodies the delight, pain, and the haunting history left in the wake of first love.