June 2024 Book Club: Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue

Our June book is Learned by Heart (336 pages, historical fiction) by Emma Donoghue. Join us for the discussion on June 12th, 2024 at Second Line Brewing.

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 (Gentleman Jack), a brilliant, troublesome tomboy, who meet at the Manor School for young ladies in York in 1805 when they are both fourteen.
Emotionally intense, psychologically compelling, and deeply researched, Learned by Heart is an extraordinary work of fiction. Full of passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.

Social half-hour starts at 6:30 and the book discussion starts around 7:00.
We will be inside in the usual room - the tasting room. It's inside, past the bar, up the stairs, left through the door, and past the restrooms. Ask at the bar for directions. Second Line should have a food truck/ vendor out there or you can bring your own.