Learned By Heart by Emma Donoghue

Fourteen year old Eliza Raine boards at the Manor School for Young Ladies in York in 1805. The daughter of an Indian mother and a British father, she was sent to England as a child and now lives apart from her older sister Jane. She keeps to herself until a fearless, charismatic new student arrives and the two form an intense, unlikely relationship that upends Eliza's life.

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