Learned by Heart

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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. As their friendship quickly blossoms into an intensely intimate first love, Eliza and Raine are forced to grapple with their romance in secret as two young women of high expectations. And when their love affair is cut unexpectedly short, one of them never recovers. 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 secret passion, great love, and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages. Show more