Emma Donoghue

Gebundenes Buch

Learned by Heart

Beschreibung

"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 when they are both fourteen"--

Autor

Born in Dublin in 1969, and now living in Canada, Emma Donoghue writes fiction (novels and short stories, contemporary and historical, most recently The Pull of the Stars), as well as drama for screen and stage.  Room, was a New York Times Best Book of 2010 and a finalist for the Man Booker, Commonwealth, and Orange Prizes, selling between two and three million copies in forty languages. Donoghue was nominated for an Academy Award for her 2015 adaptation starring Brie Larson. She co-wrote the screenplay for the film of her 2016 novel The Wonder, starring Florence Pugh, coming from Netflix. For more information, visit www.emmadonoghue.com.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 154mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9780316566018
• ISBN-10: 0316566012
• Artikelnr.: 66998161

Rezensionen

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