An Evening with Emma Donoghue
Join us for an evening with internationally bestselling author Emma Donoghue who will discuss and sign her latest novel, Learned By Heart (HarperCollins Canada). Featuring a conversation hosted by Angela Torgerson of McNally Robinson Booksellers. Co-presented by McNally Robinson Booksellers as a part of THIN AIR 2023.
The event will be hosted live in the Atrium of McNally Robinson Booksellers, Grant Park and also available as a simultaneous YouTube stream featuring live chat. The video will be available for viewing thereafter. Before arriving, please review details of how to attend physical events at the store.
Learned By Heart is a historical novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in nineteenth century York.
Born in Dublin in 1969, Emma Donoghue is a novelist, screenwriter and playwright. Room sold more than two million copies and won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize (Canada and the Caribbean), as well as being shortlisted for the Man Booker and Orange Prizes. Donoghue scripted the Canadian-Irish film adaptation, which was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture. The Wonder was shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and Donoghue co-wrote the 2022 screen adaptation for Netflix. The Pull of the Stars was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award and was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Donoghue’s fiction ranges from the contemporary (Stir-Fry, Hood, Landing, Touchy Subjects, Akin) to the historical (Haven, Slammerkin, The Sealed Letter, Astray, Frog Music) and includes two books for young readers, The Lotterys Plus One and The Lotterys More or Less.
Host Angela Torgerson is the General Manager at McNally Robinson’s Grant Park location and a voracious reader and avid supporter of Canadian Literature.
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 when they are both fourteen.
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 passion and heartbreak, the tangled lives of Anne Lister and Eliza Raine form a love story for the ages.
Venue
McNally Robinson - Grant Park
- 1120 Grant Avenue